Australia, Feb. 9 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Jan. 14:
1. There is a significant history between the parties in this matter. Since 2016, Thomas Brazel (the applicant) has made seven applications to Sydney Water (the respondent) for access to information under the provisions of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW) (the GIPA Act) (the GIPA requests).
2. The applicant's GIPA requests have been primarily focussed on seeking information relating to the consultation processes conducted by the respondent with third parties under s 54 of the GIPA Act and the objections that they raised in relation to his previous GIPA requests.
3. There have been four previous decis...