Agardy v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force [2023] NSWCATAD 201

Civil and Administrative Tribunal New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Agardy v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force [2023] NSWCATAD 201 Hearing dates: 13 March 2023 Date of orders: 2 August 2023 Decision date: 02 August 2023 Jurisdiction: Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division Before: R J Perrignon, Senior Member Decision: The decision of the Commissioner of Police made on 14 September 2022 is varied, by determining to release that part of the COPS events report extracted at [39(4)] of the reasons for decision. Catchwords: Administrative Law – access to government information – whether overriding public interest against disclosure of communications to police and personal information Legislation Cited: Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 Cases Cited: Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force v Barrett (No 2) [2016] NSWCATAP 86 Commissioner of Police (NSW) v Camilleri [2021] NSWADTAP 19 Martin v Commissioner of Police [2005] NSWADT 23 Sherman v Commissioner of Police [2016] NSWCATAD 107 Simring v Commissioner of Police [2009] NSWSC 270 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Yvette Marie Agardy (Applicant) Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force (Respondent) Representation: Applicant (self-represented) Crown Solicitor (Respondent) File Number(s): 2022/00220378 Publication restriction: The confidential version of these reasons is not to be released to the applicant or published.