Thompson & Royds Lawyers and Cairns City Council

Thompson & Royds Lawyers and Cairns City Council
(1999 L0016, 16 June 1999) 

The Information Commissioner found that three letters to the Council from the Council's solicitor, together with a file note of a telephone conversation between the CEO of the Council and the Council's solicitor, satisfied the legal tests to attract legal professional privilege, and were exempt matter under s.43(1) of the FOI Act.