Page 4457 - Week 12 - Thursday, 24 October 2019
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To the extent that legal representation has been provided, without significant manual recall and review of matters ACTGS is unable to identify how many of the matters relate to initial application, defence or appeal of care and protection orders or applications for amendment or revocation. Both the length of period for which the information is sought and the nature of the matters, means that other than manual review of all physical file records ACTGS is unable to provide the detail sought. To go beyond the initial identification of ACTGS matters would involve a significant manual search and review to identify action and outcomes. The time and cost of such a review would be an unreasonable diversion of resources.
4) The ACT Courts and Tribunal case management system does not capture this information. In order to provide this information paper files would need to be identified, retrieved from archives and reviewed manually. The time and cost of such an exercise would be an unreasonable diversion of resources.
To respond to this question would require detailed manual checking of the files in the 533 matters identified for the period. ACTGS is accordingly not able to determine how many unsuccessful applications were appealed by a party to the order or whether the appeal was successful. The time and cost of such a review would be an unreasonable diversion of resources.
5) The ACT Courts and Tribunal case management system does not capture this information. In order to provide this information paper files would need to be identified, retrieved from archives and reviewed manually. The time and cost of such an exercise would be an unreasonable diversion of resources.
ACTGS does not hold data specifically in relation to application type or outcome to enable a response to this question.
6) To the extent that legal representation has been provided, ACTGS is unable to identify how many of the matters relate to initial application, defence or appeal of care and protection orders or applications for amendment or revocation, without the manual recall and search of paper records for the 533 files. The time and cost of such a review would be an unreasonable diversion of resources.
7) ACTGS holds records of expenditure related to use of counsel on behalf of the Territory however as indicated, the matter data by work type does not differentiate between the types of activity for example application, variation, defence or revocation. The expenditure on counsel related to the child welfare work type has been reported in the Justice and Community Safety Directorate Annual Report for the preceding two financial years (Page 428 of the 2017-18 Report, and Page 415 of the 2018-19 Report). This data has not been captured in prior years.
8) As indicated, data regarding activity is recorded by work type only. Without significant manual review of each matter to determine the nature of the application, the resources applied cannot readily be assessed. To respond to this question would require detailed manual checking of the files in the 533 matters identified for the period. The time and cost of such a review would be an unreasonable diversion of resources.
9) The ACTGS holds records of expenditure related to use of counsel on behalf of the Territory however as indicated, the matter data by work type does not differentiate between the types of activity for example application, variation, defence or revocation as sought. The expenditure on counsel related to child welfare work type has been
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