GKQ v Commissioner of Victims Rights [2025] NSWCATAD 29

Civil and Administrative Tribunal New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: GKQ v Commissioner of Victims Rights [2025] NSWCATAD 29 Hearing dates: 11 October 2024 Date of orders: 29 January 2025 Decision date: 29 January 2025 Jurisdiction: Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division Before: M Riordan, Senior Member Decision: The decision under review is affirmed. Catchwords: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – administrative review – Victims' rights and support – recognition payment Legislation Cited: Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW) Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW) Victims' Rights and Support Act 2013 (NSW) Cases Cited: Nguyen v Cosmopolitan Homes [2008] NSWCA 246 Texts Cited: None Category: Principal judgment Parties: GKQ (Applicant) Commissioner of Victims Rights (Respondent) Representation: Applicant (Self-represented) Victims Services (Respondent) File Number(s): 2024/00227918 Publication restriction: Section 64 (1) (a) Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 – Restriction on publication of information that will identify any victims or evidence given and received in this Tribunal hearing or in relation to the proceedings which is likely to identify those persons.

REASONS FOR DECISION

Background 1. These proceedings relate to an application for victims support in the form of a recognition payment lodged on 18 November 2022, by the applicant, who is known by the pseudonym GKQ, initially before the Commissioner for Victims' Rights (the respondent). 2. GKQ alleged that he was the victim of a sexual assault in September 2014, while he was a mental health inpatient at St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst, in the State of New South Wales. The application was lodged under the provisions of the Victims Rights and Support Act 2013 (NSW) (the Act).