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VTN and Department of Families, Youth and Community Care

Application number:
1995 S0130
Decision date:
Tuesday, Dec 01, 1998

HRG and Department of Families, Youth and Community Care
 (1995 S0106, 16 November 1998) 

GMS and Department of Families, Youth and Community Care
 (1995 S0120, 18 November 1998)

 

VTN and Department of Families, Youth and Community Care
 (1995 S0130, 1 December 1998) 

Each of these cases raised similar issues, in that they involved an application for access to information (contained in documents relating to the applicant's adoption) comprising the name of the individual identified by the applicant's birth mother as being the applicant's natural father. 

Applying the principles set out in KBN and Department of Families, Youth and Community Care (1998) 4 QAR 422, the Information Commissioner found in each case that the matter in issue was exempt matter under s.44(1) of the FOI Act.