Documents That Summarise The Number Of Times The Department Has Applied The Legal Privilege Exemption Between 2011 And The Present.

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The Attorney-General's Department applied section 42(1) legal professional privilege (documents subject to legal professional privilege) 184 times between 1 January 2013 and 12 August 2025. The disclosure provides a table listing FOI requests where this exemption was applied, showing request numbers, dates received and finalised, and outcomes. The pattern indicates that while some requests were granted in part (allowing partial release with privileged material withheld), several were exempted in full. The data spans from FOI13/055 (May 2013) through at least FOI15/184 (September 2015) in the excerpt provided, covering requests classified as both "Other" and "Personal" types. The exemption was consistently applied across the 12-year period, reflecting the department's regular reliance on legal professional privilege to protect internal legal advice, litigation communications, and related confidential deliberations.