Information relating to legal costs incurred by the NDIA from 2018 to 2021 for the purpose of representation at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Dear National Disability Insurance Agency,
Please provide the costs incurred by the NDIA for legal representation at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, including conciliation meetings and preliminary arbitration.
Yours faithfully,
Ginger Meany
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Dear Ginger Meany
Thank you for your request for information.
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request. If you
require the attachment in a different format, please let us know.
We will process your request as quickly as possible. We will also keep in
regular contact with you, especially if there's any delay. At this stage,
you can expect to hear from us on or before 17 May 2021.
Please contact us at [1][NDIA request email] if you have any questions or
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Kind regards
Freedom of Information Officer
Parliamentary, Ministerial & FOI Branch
Government Division
National Disability Insurance Agency
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Dear Ginger Meany
Thank you for your request for information.
We are currently looking to finalise our response to your request, however
we would like to clarify we have interpreted the scope correctly.
You have requested access to:
“…the costs incurred by the NDIA for legal representation at the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal, including conciliation meetings and
preliminary arbitration.”
Our interpretation of the scope was that you were seeking total legal
costs incurred, and that you were not seeking costs in relation to
specific Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) matters.
We note that data for specific aspects of AAT, such as conciliation
meetings and preliminary arbitration, is not available at a granular level
given it is not a reporting requirement.
Can we confirm that you are seeking access to the total costs incurred by
the NDIA for legal representation at the AAT?
We note that you have not specified a date range, therefore we have taken
the scope of your request to be from the commencement of the NDIS to date.
We note that granular data on specific legal spending at AAT is not
available for all years given it was not a reporting requirement at the
time. However, information on legal spending specific to AAT is in a
retrievable format from 2018-19.
To provide you with information, we are able to create a document under
section 17 of the FOI Act for data on total legal spending on AAT matters
from 2018-19 to date.
Can we confirm you are amenable to a date range of 2018-19 to date?
This would make the new scope:
…the total costs incurred by the NDIA for legal representation at the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal between 2018-19 to date.
If you confirm the above by 4:00pm Friday 14 May, we will be able to
provide you with a decision by Monday 17 May 2021 in line with the current
due date.
We would like to provide you with the information you are seeking;
however, if the data your request relates to differs from the revised
scope, it is likely that we will need to issue a practical refusal as data
is not recorded to other levels of granularity as described.
Our apologies for any inconvenience caused, and we look forward to hearing
from you.
Kind regards
Rebecca Setnicar
Freedom of Information Officer
Parliamentary, Ministerial & FOI Branch
Government Division
National Disability Insurance Agency
Email: [1][NDIA request email]
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Dear Ginger Meany
Thank you for your request for information.
Please find attached correspondence and documents in relation to your
request. If you require these in a different format, please let us know.
Please contact us at [1][NDIA request email] if you have any questions or
require help.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Officer
Parliamentary, Ministerial & FOI Branch
Government Division
National Disability Insurance Agency
Email: [2][NDIA request email]
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