Section 32 exempts information contained in certain litigation documents
and court, tribunal and inquiry records and will apply regardless of the
content of the information. There are separate and specific regimes for
gaining access to court and tribunal records and section 32 ensures that
those regimes are not superseded by the FOI Act.
Key points:
Section 32 will apply only if the public authority concerned holds
the information solely because it was contained in
one of the specified documents.
Section 32 applies regardless of the content of the information
The application of section 32 is not subject to any
public interest balance.
