Latham -v- Director General, Department of Community Services [2000] NSWADT 58

CITATION: Latham -v- Director General, Department of Community Services [2000] NSWADT 58 DIVISION: General Division APPLICANT Paul Latham

PARTIES: RESPONDENT Director General

RESPONDENT Director General, Department of Community Services FILE NUMBER: 993212 HEARING DATES: 06/12/99 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 12/06/1999 DATE OF DECISION: 05/12/2000

BEFORE: Hennessy N (Deputy President) APPLICATION: access to documents - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter LEGISLATION CITED : Freedom of Information Act 1989 Re Scholes and the Australian Federal Police (1996) 44 ALD 299 Department of Health -v- Jephcott (1985) 62 ALR 421 Re Liddell and Department of Social Security (1989) 20 ALD 259 Sankey -v- Whilam; Coastal States Gas Corporation -v- Department of Energy (1978) 142 CLR 1 Hudson as Agent for Fencray Pty Ltd -v- Department of the Premier, Economic and Trade Development (1993) 1 QAR 123 CASES CITED: Re Evans and Ministry for the Arts (1986) 1 VAR 315 Re Murtagh and Commissioner of Taxation (1984) 6 ALD 112 Bennett -v- Vice-Chancellor, University of New England [2000] NSWADT 8 Re Pemberton and the University of Queensland, Decisioon No. 94032, 5/12/94, unreported Re JE Waterford and Department of Treasury (No. 2) Mangoplah Pastoral Co Pty Ltd-v- Great Southern Energy [1999] NSWADT 93 (30 September 1999) APPLICANT REPRESENTATION: R Sproule, agent RESPONDENT J Korathota, solicitor ORDERS: 1. The agency's decision not to disclose the following documents to the applicant is affirmed:· pages 19 and 20; and· page 6.; 2. The agency's decision not to disclose the following documents to the applicant is set aside:· pages 65-75;· pages 76-82;· pages 44-46, 109-111, and 10-12;· pages 58-64;· pages 120-128;· pages 31-41;· pages 1-4;· pages 22, 24 and 42; and· pages 117-119.; 3. In place of the decision not to disclose the documents listed in paragraph 2 above, the Tribunal makes a decision to disclose those documents to the applicant.