Phillips Fox Solicitors and Education Queensland

Application number:
1995 S0159
Decision date:
Thursday, Apr 23, 1998

Phillips Fox Solicitors and Education Queensland
(1995 S0159, 23 April 1998) 

Phillips Fox Solicitors and Education Queensland
(1996 S0004, 23 April 1998) 

These 'reverse FOI' cases involved the application of s.40(c), s.41(1), s.42(1)(e), s.44(1), s.46(1)(a) and s.46(1)(b) of the FOI Act to documents associated with an investigation which was conducted by the respondent into complaints made by parents against teachers at one of the respondent's schools.  The Information Commissioner affirmed the respondent's decision that the documents did not comprise exempt matter under any of those exemption provisions.