FOI Procedures Manual (Victoria)
FOI Solutions has produced a comprehensive FOI Procedures Manual which is available for purchase to any existing Victorian Government "agency" under the FOI Act. It will be customised with the name of your agency and there are no ongoing subscriptions or fees. Any amendments to the Manual will be made available electronically and free of charge (provided you give us details of a contact to whom updates can be sent). Several hundred Victorian agencies have purchased our Manual over the last 18 years. To order your copy or for more information, please click here. Please note that the Manual includes the 2017 amendments to the FOI Act, Professional Standards from December 2019, and the most recent increase in the application fee.
VCAT FOI Decision Summaries (Annual)
FOI Solutions publishes annually summaries of all VCAT freedom of information decisions. Those publications are available for purchase. Summaries are available for each year from the most recent edition back to 2004. Click here for more information and an order form.
VCAT Privacy Decision Summaries (Annual)
FOI Solutions publishes annually summaries of all VCAT privacy and health records decisions. Those publications are available for purchase. Summaries are available for each year from the most recent edition back to 2004. Click here for more information and an order form.
VCAT FOI & Privacy Decision Summaries (Monthly)
It is timely to consider whether you have been keeping up to date with developments in FOI and privacy decisions and whether you want your knowledge of recent cases to be left behind.
To help maintain your knowledege FOI Solutions has developed a subscription service summarising VCAT FOI and privacy decisions. It will enable you to keep up to date on a month by month basis by having timely access to the most recent FOI and privacy decisions within days or weeks of them being made (rather than relying on our annual summary publication which is also available). Subscriptions are available on a 24, 12 or 6 monthly basis. Click here for more information or to subscribe.
Free Publications
Client newsletters
A select sample of FOI Solutions client newsletters are available (click below)
2014 (Issue 5)
2014 (Issue 4)
2014 (Issue 3)
2014 (Issue 2)
2014 (Issue 1)
2013 (Issue 4)
2013 (Issue 3)
2013 (Issue 2)
2013 (Issue 1)
2012 (Issue 3)
2012 (Issue 2)
2012 (Issue 1)
2011 (Issue 1)
2010 (Issue 1)
2009 (Issue 2)
2008 (Issue 2)
2008 (Issue 1)
2006
2004
2003
Fax/Email Updates
FOI Solutions regularly sends clients fax or email updates to advise of new developments in the law relating to freedom of information, privacy and other areas. Click on the links below to see previous updates.
2014 No 1 (Council public documents)
No 2 (Sufficiency of searches for documents)
No 3 (Vic FOI fee)
No 4 (New access charges)
No 5 (FOI Act amendments)
No 6 (New privacy legislation)
No 7 (Business methodology exempt)
No 8 (Warning against incorrect access charge calculations)
2013 No1 (Official document of a Minister)
No 2 (Vic FOI Fee)
No 3 (VCAT register search fees)
2012
No 1 (Vic FOI fee)
No 2 ( Auditor General criticism of agencies)
2011
No 1 (Need to particularise privacy complaints)
No 2 (Vic FOI fee)
2010*
No 1 (Change to privilege exemption)
No 2 (Vic FOI fee)
No 3 (High Court Public Interest decision)
No 4 (Invalid requests)
No 5 (New Government and FOI)
2009*
No 1 (Interpretation of secrecy exemption)
No 2 (Osland decision)
No 3 (Vic FOI fee)
No 4 (Establishing public interest ground)
No 5 (Public interest factors)
No 6 (FOI during Court proceedings)
2008*
No 1 (world at large test scrapped)
No 2 (world at large - leave to appeal)
No 3 (Vic FOI fee)
No 4 (Health information about applicant)
No 5 ("Unreasonable" disclosure of personal affairs)
2007*
No 1 (Cabinet exemption)
No 2 (Vic FOI fee)
No 3 (Vic FOI Amendment Bill)
2006*
No 1 (Adequacy of document search)
No 2 (Vic FOI Amendments)
No 3 (Vic FOI fee)
No 4 (Penalties in privacy legislation)
2005*
No 1 (Clarification of requests)
No 2 (Vic FOI fee)
No 3 (Ombudsman FOI review Vic)
No 4 (FOI Solutions website launch)
No 5 ("personal information" in privacy)
2004*
No 1 (Vic FOI fee)
2003*
No 1 (FOI terrorism amendments Vic)
2000*
No 1 (commercially sensitive docs)
No 2 (VCAT review of original decision)
1999*
No 1 (irrelevant documents reviewable?)
No 2 (Vic FOI amendments)
No 3 (no splitting of requests)
No 4 (Vic FOI amendments)
No 5 (Vic FOI amendments)
* Beware out of date contact details. For current contact details click here.
