Crewdson -v- Central Sydney Area Health Service [2000] NSWADT 184

Reported Decision : Set aside by appeal on 28/12/2001

CITATION: Crewdson -v- Central Sydney Area Health Service [2000] NSWADT 184 DIVISION: General Division APPLICANT Gerard Crewdson PARTIES: RESPONDENT Central Sydney Area Health Service FILE NUMBER: 993252 HEARING DATES: 07/04/00, 21/06/00 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 07/14/2000 DATE OF DECISION: 12/12/2000

BEFORE: Robinson MA - Judicial Member APPLICATION: Freedom of Information Act - amendment to documents - amendment to documents MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter LEGISLATION CITED : Freedom of Information Act 1989 Morgan v Director- General, Department of Education and Training & Minister for Education and Training [1999] NSWADT 91 S v Director-General, Department of Community Services [2000] NSWADT 24 Hayward-Brown -v- Chief Executive Officer, Wentworth Area Health Service [2000] NSWADT 46 Crewdson -v- President, Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales [2000] NSWADT 60 CASES CITED: Gordon and Department of Social Security (1991) 25 ALD 335 Cox and the Department of Defence (1990) 20 ALD 499 Sime and Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1995) 21 AAR 369 Stephens and Victoria Police (1988) 2 VAR 236 RR v Department of Army (1980) 483 S v Director-General, Department of Community Services [2000] NSWADT 24 at [54]-[59] APPLICANT REPRESENTATION: In person RESPONDENT J Whalan, officer of the respondent ORDERS: 1. The decision of the respondent is set aside; 2. The words "currently unfit for work and" should be removed or obliterated from the original and from any copy of the Interim Report dated 29 October 1997 held or contained in the respondent's records; 3. An annotation in relation to each record should be added by the respondent containing the following words : "The Administrative Decisions Tribunal of NSW has determined that some words formerly in this record be removed or obliterated pursuant to section 43(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 1989."