Overview Human Rights Act matters Privacy Act matters A total of 99 decisions were made by the Director this year on matters concerning the Human Rights Act 1993 and Privacy Act 1993. The Director is currently providing representation to 24 clients. Eighteen of these have active proceedings before the Human Rights Review Tribunal. The Director made 62 decisions in respect to applications for representation under the Human Rights Act. Of these, 17 decisions were made to provide representation: 13 for representation in the Human Rights Review Tribunal, three for settlement purposes and one for mediation. Two matters were referred back to the Human Rights Commission for mediation (as mentioned, the Director provided representation in one of these). Decisions to take no further action were made in 11 cases. Thirty-three decisions were made not to provide representation. The Director currently has two active Privacy Act proceedings before the Tribunal. Proceedings are imminent in another matter and consideration as to whether to bring proceedings is ongoing in a further matter. The Director made 37 decisions in respect to Privacy Act matters. Two decisions followed referrals from the Privacy Commissioner under section 77 of the Privacy Act. The Director decided not to bring proceedings in both these matters. In one of these, the issue at stake had been determined in the negative in another case in the Tribunal. In the other, the aggrieved individual elected to instruct private counsel who was already acting for approximately 75 litigants in the same matter. The Director made 35 decisions in respect to invitations to intervene in proceedings before the Human Rights Review Tribunal. He decided to intervene in one of these. This graph shows the proportion of applications for representation in respect to Part 1A of the Human Rights Act (which deals with discrimination by Government and bodies acting with legal authority), and Part 2 of the Human Rights Act (which largely deals with discrimination in the private sector). Decisions made under Part 1A and Part 2 of the Human Rights Act 1993 37% Part 2 34 63% Part 1A Human Rights Commission