C H Real Estate Pty Limited (t/a Raine & Horne Commercial, Penrith) v Penrith City Council [2005] NSWADT 147

CITATION: C H Real Estate Pty Limited (t/a Raine & Horne Commercial, Penrith) v Penrith City Council [2005] NSWADT 147 DIVISION: General Division APPLICANT PARTIES: CH Real Estate Pty Limited (t/a Raine & Horne Commercial, Penrith) RESPONDENT Penrith City Council FILE NUMBER: 043331 HEARING DATES: 28/02/2005 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 02/28/2005 DATE OF DECISION: 06/30/2005

BEFORE: O'Connor K - DCJ (President) APPLICATION: access to documents - business affairs - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - business affairs MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) LEGISLATION CITED : Freedom of Information Act 1989 Ombudsman Act 1974 Re Organon (Australia) Pty Ltd and Department of Community Services and Health; Public Interest Advocacy Centre (1987) 13 ALD 588 Re Pfizer Pty Ltd & anor and Department of Health, Housing and Community Services (1993) 30 ALD 647 Ansell Rubber Co Pty Ltd v Allied Rubber Industries Pty Ltd [1967] VR 37 CASES CITED: Wittingslow Amusements Group v Environment Protection Agency (NSWSC, 23 April 1993) Raethel v Director General, Dept of Education and Training [1999] NSWADT 108 Schlebaum (No 2) v Director General, Dept of Community Services & anor [2001] NSWADT 214 Re Attorney General's Dept and Cockcroft (1986) 64 ALR 97 APPLICANT REPRESENTATION: J Drummond of counsel instructed by Bateman Battersby, solicitors RESPONDENT S Britten, solicitor, Penrith City Council ORDERS: 1. The respondent's determination is varied; 2. The respondent is to refuse to grant access to the information itemised in para [60] of the Tribunal's reasons