Good or bad, right or wrong, it doesn’t matter. What matters is what they think. So every free moment is a blessing. And a curse. Because in the cage you count everything you could have done, and can’t do now.
Do it now.
Adversarial justice is a fight you didn’t pick, against people paid to win it. They have lawyers, time, and the paperwork. You have what happened to you. Each drawer is one letter, with the body it goes to, the clock it runs on, and the section that says so. Fill in the fields. Copy. Send.
An access application to a WA agency for the documents about you. Police, the DPP, Communities, a hospital.
The 45 days ran out and nothing came. The Act says that is a refusal. This asks for the review the refusal opens.
Internal review is done, or fifteen days passed. The next door is the Commissioner, and it closes after sixty days.
Insurer, super fund, administrator, bank, doctor. Australian Privacy Principle 12. Thirty days is the guide.
The grounds for refusing access are ten, listed in APP 12.3. “Commercial arrangements” is not one. Neither is silence.
Thirty days have passed since you complained to the company. The Commissioner takes it in writing, with the paper trail.
An insurer, fund or bank has to answer a complaint inside 30 days, 45 for a super trustee. Only if it is logged as one. Say the word.
AFCA’s own guideline names who gets moved to the front: hardship, family violence, a firm that failed to respond. Hold it to its list.
A WA department did something its own record shows it should not have. Three failures, each on a document, and one ask.
Serious misconduct by a police officer or public servant goes to the Corruption and Crime Commission. Its form has eight boxes. Fill them in this order.
Written so that nobody has to be blamed for the reader to agree. Day by day, with their own words quoted at each step.
You act for yourself now. The prosecutor and the court need one email that says the old lawyer holds no authority.
Who takes this complaint, and who only pretends to. A prosecutor will not review a police officer. A department will not find against itself. Each drawer names the body whose job it is.
They had years to charge you. You may have twelve months to complain about them, or forty-five days for them to answer, or sixty to appeal. The clock page lists every one, with the section it comes from.
The line in their own record that proves it. Every letter here quotes the document first, names what it shows second, and asks for written confirmation third. Never the other way round.
Winning isn’t the only exit. Some fights you finish. Some you leave. We help with both.