ABSTRACT
It’s a well-known industrial policy to price the original equipment competitively, because the customer can always go somewhere else, but on parts to overprice and clean up.
The most important problem with the way the law has developed since early 1986 is that the debate has been so dominated by car spare parts that we have tended to consider that it concerns only car spare parts when it has ramifications and consequences outside the issue of car spare parts ... Unless we are extremely careful, we shall legislate for the particular and legislate in a bad way for the general. (SCE col 525-26, session 1987-88.)
