Competition law and human rights

Competition law has been particularly susceptible to arguments that traditional safeguards should be discarded to aid regulators in securing convictions.
This article considers the limitations human rights law places on the ability to impose financial penalties.

A competing human rights situation exists when two or more legally protected rights are in conflict and at least one is based on human rights legislation.
How are these conflicts resolved.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has produced a policy for competing human rights outlining the fundamental legal principles found in the jurisprudence.

Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies, among which the rates paid to labor figure prominently, and often there is friction between the employer and the employed, between capital and labor, between rich and poor.
Human society loses homogeneity.

Competition law enforcement depends on an effective system of human rights, most obviously the right to property, the right to contract and rights to due legal process.
Delegates and experts from the competition and human rights fields exchanged on each other's one perspectives during this session.