Saleam -v- Director General, Department of Community Services and ors [2002] NSWADT 41

CITATION: Saleam -v- Director General, Department of Community Services and ors [2002] NSWADT 41 DIVISION: General Division APPLICANT James Saleam FIRST RESPONDENT PARTIES: Director General, Department of Community Services SECOND RESPONDENT Premier (as Minister Administering the Freedom of Information Act 1989) THIRD RESPONDENT BZ FILE NUMBER: 003145 HEARING DATES: 14/11/2001 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 12/04/2001 DATE OF DECISION: 03/25/2002

BEFORE: O'Connor K - DCJ (President) APPLICATION: access to documents - confidential material - access to documents - law enforcement & public safety - access to documents - personal affairs - access to documents - secrecy provisions - 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 - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - secrecy provisions MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 LEGISLATION CITED : Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 Freedom of Information Act 1989 Ombudsman Act 1974 R v Saleam (1989) 16 NSWLR 14 R v Saleam [1999] NSWCA 86 Kennedy v Commissioner of Police [2001] NSWADT 39 Re Chandra and Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1984) 6ALN N257 Wiseman v Commonwealth (Federal Court (Full Court) 637/89, 24 October 1989, Sheppard, Beaumont, Pincus JJ, unreported) CASES CITED: Re Zalcberg and Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (AAT, Senior Member Gibbs, No 8015, 12 June 1992, unreported Colakovski v Australian Telecommunications Corporation (1991) 13 AAR 261 Re Green and Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Commission (1992) 28 ALD 655 Humane Society v National Parks and Wildlife Service [2000] NSWADT 133 Burns and ANU (No2) (1985) 7 ALD 425 Lovelock and Queensland Health Department: [2001] QICmr2 APPLICANT In person FIRST RESPONDENT REPRESENTATION: D Hewitson, solicitor SECOND RESPONDENT C Ludlow, solicitor THIRD RESPONDENT In person ORDERS: 1 Decision under review affirmed