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Reasoning rejected
Date:31 August 2021
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW).
Case: Y v Director General, Department of Education & Training [2001] NSWADT 149 (12 September 2001); DTN v Commissioner of Police [2021] NSWCATAD 240 (16 August 2021).
Powers Preserved
Date: 2 July 2021
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 52, s 53, s 55; Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW) s 63(1), s 63(2), s 65(1).
AQG v Secretary, Department of Customer Service
Date: 28 June 2021
Case: AQG v Secretary, Department of Customer Service [2021] NSWCATAD 167 (15 June 2021)
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 52, s 53, s 55; Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), s 53(1) and (2), s 41, s 55(1)(b); Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW) s 63(1), s 65(1).
Administrative functions
Date: 14 March 2021
Cases: EJW v Commissioner of Police [2020] NSWCATAD 326 (23 December 2020); HW v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police [2003] NSWADT 214; and Commissioner of Police, New South Wales Police Force v YK (GD) [2008] NSWADTAP 78 (27 November 2008).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 27.
Propositions and principles
Date: 13 January 2021
Cases: KJ v Wentworth Area Health Service [2004] NSWADT 84 (3 May 2004); MT v Director General, NSW Department of Education & Training [2004] NSWADT 194 (3 September 2004); Director General, Department of Education and Training v MT (GD) [2005] NSWADTAP 77 (23 December 2005); and Nasr v State of New South Wales; Nasr v State of New South Wales [2007] NSWCA 101.
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998, s 18; and Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW), HPP 11(2).
Sophistry
Date: 26 November 2020
Cases: HW v Commissioner of Police, New South Wales Police Service and Anor [2003] NSWADT 214 (10 September 2003); GA v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police [2005] NSWADT 121 (7 June 2005); YK v Commissioner of Police, New South Wales Police [2008] NSWADT 81 (13 March 2008); Commissioner of Police, New South Wales Police Force v YK (GD) [2008] NSWADTAP 78 (27 November 2008); AEZ v Commissioner of Police. NSW Police Force (No 2) [2013] NSWADT 91 (29 April 2013); and, EEQ v Commissioner of Police [2020] NSWCATAD 253 (19 October 2020).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 27.
DQU v University of New England
Date: 1 October 2020
Case: DQU v University of New England [2020] NSWCATAD 226 (11 September 2020).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 10(b).
BWY v Secretary, Department of Education [2020] NSWCATAD 208
Date: 15 September 2020
Cases: BWY v Secretary, Department of Education [2020] NSWCATAD 208 (24 August 2020); Vice-Chancellor Macquarie University v FM [2005] NSWCA 192 (10 June 2005); Director General, Department of Education and Training v MT [2006] NSWCA 270 (29 September 2006).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 4, s 17, s 18, s 25; the Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW), s 63; State Records Act 1998 (NSW), s 12(1); Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW), s 28.
Limits on disclosure
Revised and republished as ‘Propositions and principles’.
Date: 18 August 2020
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s18; Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW), HPP 11.
Rights and wrongs
Date: 20 July 2020
Case: EFR v Commissioner of Police [2020] NSWCATAD 159 (23 June 2020).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 27.
Privacy rights and law enforcement functions
Date: 9 June 2020
Case: Cavallaro v Commissioner of Police [2020] NSWCATAD 132 (14 May 2020).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 27.
Power, jurisdiction, duty
Date: 1 May 2020
Cases: ALZ v WorkCover NSW [2015] NSWCATAD 241 (3 November 2015); ALZ v SafeWork NSW (No 2) [2016] NSWCATAD 121(16 June 2016); ALZ v SafeWork NSW [2017] NSWCATAP 51 (9 March 2017).
Legislation: Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), s 54(1).
Inconsistency
Date: 4 March 2020
Cases: The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s case law on s 25 of the PPIP Act.
Legislation: Section 25, Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW).
Principle of illegality
Date: 7 February 2020
Cases: PN v Department of Education and Training [2009] NSWADT 287 (23 November 2009); PN v Department of Education and Training (GD) [2010] NSWADTAP 59 (31 August 2010); DQN v The University of Sydney [2019] NSWCATAD 266 (19 December 2019).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 25(b).
2020’s vision
Date: 9 January 2020
Hoped for changes to conduct reviews in privacy cases in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Damages as Compensation
Date: 18 December 2019
Cases: NW v New South Wales Fire Brigades (No 2) [2006] NSWADT 61; APV and APW v Department of Family and Community Services [2015] NSWCATAD 140 (6 July 2015; AOZ v Rail Corporation NSW (No 2) [2015] NSWCATAP 179 (19 August 2015); DKV v Southern NSW Local Health District (No 2) [2019] NSWCATAD 243 (3 December 2019); ALZ v SafeWork NSW (No 4) [2017] NSWCATAD 1 (4 January 2017); NZ v Director General, Department of Housing [2006] NSWADT 173 (7 June 2006).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), long title, s 55(2)(a), s 55(4)(b); Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW), s 3(1)(a).
Discretion
Date: 19 November 2019
Case: DQW v Secretary, Department of Family and Community Services [2019] NSWCATAD 213 (21 October 2019).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW); long title, s 53(3)(d), s 55(1)(b), s 55(3); Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW); s (3)(d), s 9, s 7(2)(a), s 63.
Of despots and sheep
Date: 9 November 2019
Case: DQW v Secretary, Department of Family and Community Services [2019] NSWCATAD 213 (21 October 2019).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW); s 55(1)(b), ‘action taken by the public sector agency in relation to the application’.
Justice inaction
Date: 13 September 2019
Case: DSN v NSW Department of Justice [2019] NSWCATAD 174 (23 August 2019).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW); s 53, s 55, ‘aggrieved’;
Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW); s 9, s 63, review jurisdiction extended not limited, Shi v Migration Agents Registration Authority [2008] HCA 31 (30 July 2008) applied.
Mending fences
Date: 17 August 2019
Case: DMW and DMX v NSW Rural Fire Service [2019] NSWCATAD 158 (9 August 2019).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW); s 4(5), s 8, s 9, s10, s 11, s 12, s 13, s 14, s 16, s 17, s 18, s 19, s 27A(b)(ii) ; ‘receipt’, ‘unsolicited’, ‘inquiries’, ‘possession’.
Old sin, long shadow: Part 1
Date: 3 August 2019
Case: Y v Director General, Department of Education & Training [2001] NSWADT 149 (12 September 2001).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s (4)(1), s 4(3)(j), s 12, s 13, s 14, s 15, s 16, s 17, s 18, s 19, s 52, s 53, s 55, ‘correlative right’, ‘incompetent’, ‘conduct’, ‘beneficial construction’, ‘natural and ordinary meaning’, ‘practical injustice’, ‘principles of statutory construction’.
Lost the plot
Date: 6 May 2019
Cases: PC v University of New South Wales [2005] NSWADT 157 (8 July 2005), PC v University of New South Wales (GD) [2005] NSWADTAP 72 (20 December 2005), DHU v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force [2018] NSWCATAD 126 (30 April 2018), and DHU v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Service [2018] NSWCATAP 282 (28 November 2018).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 21, s 33, s 52(4), s 53, ‘case law principles’, ‘plain language’, ‘imputed bias’; Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 (NSW), s 3(g); Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW), objects; Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), s 38(2).
Lawful collection IPP and HPP
Date: 9 March 2019
Case: ALZ v SafeWork NSW [2017] NSWCATAP 51 (9 March 2017).
Legislation: Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 8; Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW), HPP 1, ‘mandatory to consider purpose’, ‘lawful purpose’, ‘any unlawful means’.
ALZ and the OH &S Division of WorkCover
Date: 4 February 2019
Cases: ALZ v WorkCover NSW [2014] NSWCATAD 49 (24 April 2014), ALZ v WorkCover NSW [2015] NSWCATAP 138 (10 July 2015).
Legislation: Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW), HPPs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10; Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), s 33.