In the Context of Transparency and 'Working Together' -ACC's Prerogative to Exclude Communications between Legal Teams and the ACC in a Claimants File Information Request
Anthony Jordan made this Official Information request to Accident Compensation Corporation
Accident Compensation Corporation did not have the information requested.
      From: Anthony Jordan
      
    
    Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,
please provide the following
1/ Part of the act that doesn't allow the ACC to use its own discretion and disclose communications between external Lawyers/Legal Teams contracted to represent the ACC at any Conciliation
2/ Part of the act that doesn't allow the ACC to use its own discretion and disclose communications between external Lawyers/Legal Teams contracted to represent the ACC at any Review Hearing
3/ Part of the act that doesn't allow the ACC to use its own discretion and disclose communications between external Lawyers/Legal Teams contracted to represent the ACC at any District Court hearing
4/ Part of the act that doesn't allow the ACC to use its own discretion and disclose communications between external Lawyers/Legal Teams contracted to represent the ACC at any District Court appeal
Yours faithfully,
Anthony Jordan
        From: Government Services
        Accident Compensation Corporation
      
    
    Kia ora
 
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        From: Government Services
        Accident Compensation Corporation
      
    
    Kia ora Anthony,
Please find attached our response to your official information request
 dated 11 May 2023. If you have any questions about the response you can
 contact us at this [1]address, for all other matters please use our
 contact form at: [2]https://www.acc.co.nz/contact/ alternatively give us a
 call on 0800 101 996.
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Ngâ mihi
Sara Freitag (she/her)
 Acting Manager | OIA Services
' 027 973 7330
 * PO Box 242, Wellington 6011
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