BY -v- Director General, Attorney General's Department (No. 2) [2003] NSWADT 37

CITATION: BY -v- Director General, Attorney General's Department (No. 2) [2003] NSWADT 37 DIVISION: General Division APPLICANT PARTIES: BY RESPONDENT Director General, Attorney Generals Department FILE NUMBER: 013087 and 013088 HEARING DATES: 19/09/2002 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 10/16/2002 DATE OF DECISION: 02/28/2003

BEFORE: O'Connor K - DCJ (President) APPLICATION: access to documents - confidential material - access to documents - law enforcement & public safety - access to documents - personal affairs - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - confidential material - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - law enforcement & public safety - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - personal affairs MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic) LEGISLATION CITED : Freedom of Information Act 1989 Legal Practitioners Admission Rules 1994 Legal Profession Act 1987 BY v Director General, Attorney General's Department [2002] NSWADT 79 Mauger v General Manager, Wingecaribbee Shire Council [1999] NSWADT 35 Accident Compensation Commission v Croom [1991] 2 VR 322 Re Gold and Australian Federal Police and National Crime Authority (1994) 37 ALD 168 CASES CITED: Watkins v Chief Executive, Road Traffic Authority [2000] NSWADT 11 Cain v Glass (no 2) (1985) 3 NSWLR 230 Greater Manchester Police v McNally [2002] EWCACiv 14 Australian Securities and Investment Commission [ASIC] v Whitlam [2002] NSWSC 526 Neary v The Treasurer, New South Wales [2002] NSWADT 261 APPLICANT REPRESENTATION: In person RESPONDENT P Singleton, barrister ORDERS: 1. The determination of the agency to refuse to grant access to the eight documents listed in the schedule dated 20 Septembere 2002 is affirmed.