Electronic communication pertaining to the Essendon Football club between the AFL and ASADA for the calendar year 2013

Joe made this Freedom of Information request to Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

This request has been closed to new correspondence from the public body. Contact us if you think it ought be re-opened.

The request was refused by Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

Dear Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority,

I hereby request electronic copies of all email correspondence sent in the calendar year 2013, between members of the Australian Sports Anti Doping Authority and staff members of the Australian Football League relating to the investigation into the Essendon Football Club.

Yours faithfully,

Joe

Legal, Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

Dear Joe,

I refer to your email below in which you sought access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).

I confirm a valid request was received on 23 July 2014 and the statutory period for processing your request commenced from that date.

I will email you shortly advising whether charges will be imposed and provide you with a preliminary assessment of the charges for processing your request. If the estimated charges exceed $100, a deposit of 25% will be sought. For estimated charges less than $100, a deposit of $20 will be sought. You should note that work will not commence on your application until the deposit has been paid.

When the matter is finalised a decision letter and final account will be sent to you. This final account will be based on actual time spent on search and retrieval, vetting and decision making in relation to your request and is payable whether or not any documents are released.

I hope to be able to advise you of our decision on your request in the near future. Should you have any queries regarding the progress of your request, please contact myself on the below details or Stephen White on 02 6222 4259 or email to [ASADA request email].

Kind regards,
Alexie

Alexie Finucan
Lawyer
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

T   +61 (0) 2 6222 4254
F   +61 (0) 2 6222 4341
E   [email address]

My days at work are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

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ASADA Hotline 13 000 ASADA (13 000 27232)
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Stephen White, Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

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Dear Joe

I refer to your Freedom of Information request outlined below. Please find attached correspondence from our office for your attention.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Regards

Stephen White
Senior Lawyer
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
T +61 (0) 2 6222 4259
F +61 (0) 2 6222 4359
www.asada.gov.au

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Alexie Finucan, Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

Dear Joe

I refer to the below email from ASADA which attached a Practical Refusal Notice. That Notice outlined that you and ASADA have now entered into a Consultation Period, in order for you to have the opportunity to revise the scope of your request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth).

Please contact me on the below details to discuss how you might be able to revise your request in order for it to be processed by ASADA.

Kind regards
Alexie

Alexie Finucan
Lawyer
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

T   +61 (0) 2 6222 4254
F   +61 (0) 2 6222 4341
E   [email address]

My days at work are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

W  www.asada.gov.au
ASADA Hotline 13 000 ASADA (13 000 27232)
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martin hardie left an annotation ()

Jo,

All these documents are already collated by ASADA for the Federal Court case. there is no burden to find them.

Alexie Finucan, Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

Dear Joe

 

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth)
(FOI Act) dated 23 July 2014 and the Practical Refusal Notice sent to you
from ASADA on 14 August 2014. 

 

In that Notice you were notified that a ‘practical refusal reason’ existed
in relation to the processing of your FOI request.  As such, ASADA invited
you to consult with us in order to revise your request so to make it more
manageable for ASADA to process.  We outlined that under section 24AB of
the FOI Act, you had 14 days to respond to the Notice.  Those 14 days have
now passed and we have not received any correspondence from you.  As such,
under subsection 24AB(7) of the FOI Act your request is now taken to have
been withdrawn.

 

If you wish to discuss this further, please contact me on the below
details.

 

Kind regards

Alexie

 

 

Alexie Finucan

Lawyer

Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

 

T   +61 (0) 2 6222 4254

F   +61 (0) 2 6222 4341

E   [1][email address]

 

My days at work are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

 

W  [2]www.asada.gov.au

ASADA Hotline 13 000 ASADA (13 000 27232)

Please consider our environment before printing this email.

 

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