FOI 25.26 1924 Decision Document

DOCUMENT 1

FOI 24/25-1924

FOI 25/26-1924 — Payments made by NDIA to external law firms where the NDIA was a respondent at the AAT/ART from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025

Scope

Please provide the following information about all law firms engaged by the NDIA in the first six months of the 2025-2026 financial year for matters to which the NDIA was a Respondent at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)/Administrative Review Tribunal (ART):

1. A list of all law firms engaged.

2. The number of AAT matters each law firm was engaged for.

3. The total of all payments made by the NDIA to each of these law firms, giving the total figure paid to each law firm and also a combined total figure of all payments.

Clarification

Only within the NDIS jurisdiction

Response

Law firm	Number of matters engaged for	Total amount paid
Mills Oakley	redacted: s47G - business information, s47 - trade secrets or commercially valuable information	$ 10,481 ,888.03
Maddocks		$ 10,164,271.55
Sparke Helmore		$ 7,831,706.25
Moray & Agnew		$ 9,666,809.93
Total value		$ 38,144,675.76

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