Fraud Detection and Reporting Pty Ltd v Department of Justice [2018] NSWCATAP 191

Civil and Administrative Tribunal New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Fraud Detection and Reporting Pty Ltd v Department of Justice [2018] NSWCATAP 191 Hearing dates: 27 July 2018 Date of orders: 07 August 2018 Decision date: 07 August 2018 Jurisdiction: Appeal Panel Before: The Hon F Marks Principal Member Dr J Lucy Senior Member Decision: 1 appeal dismissed 2 costs reserved with liberty to apply which must be exercised within one month of this date Catchwords: GIPA application-excluded information-held no entitlement to information Recording of Tribunal proceedings – application by party-held no valid reason for exercise of discretion Non-publication order-representative of party has made threats and engaged in inappropriate conduct-use of social media-held non-publication order justified. Legislation Cited: Court Security Act 2005 Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 Judicial Officers Act 1986 Cases Cited: State of New South Wales (Justice Health) and anor v Dezfouli [2008] NSWADTAP 69 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Fraud Detection and Reporting Pty Limited (Appellant) Department of Justice (Respondent) Representation: J Zidar (Agent for appellant)

R Jeyasingam, solicitor (Respondent)

Solicitors: Department of Justice (Respondent) File Number(s): AP 18/16811 and AP 18/17004 Publication restriction: The names of any witnesses to these proceedings and the names of any staff members of the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner or the Department of Justice referred to in these proceedings must not be disclosed. Decision under appeal Court or tribunal: NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal Jurisdiction: Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division Citation: [2018] NSWCATAD 63 Date of Decision: 22 March, 2018 Before: S Leal Senior Member File Number(s): 2017/000284196