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In the recent decision of Ku-ring-gai Council v Garry West as delegate of the Acting Director-General, Office of Local Government [2017] NSWCA 54, the NSW Court of Appeal considered the question of whether the public interest in the production of documents outweighed the public interest in preserving secrecy and confidentiality.

High Court finds in favour of Commissioner of State Revenue (Victoria).

You may be aware that at present, there is no independent monitoring of the States’ compliance with competitive neutrality principles.

Senior Deputy Crown Solicitor Tony Keyes and Principal Lawyer Ben Cramer represented the State at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last week.

You may be aware that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission publishes a Compliance and Enforcement policy each year that identifies the ACCC’s enforcement priorities for the year.