At the moment, the Information Commissioner in fact investigates and provides findings and recommendation to the institution. If the institution decides not to go with the findings or recommendations and decides not release the records, then the requester has the choice to go to court, or the Information Commissioner has the choice to go to court with the consent of the requester first. Also, the Information Commissioner, particularly in a case where an institution is not responding to requests on a widespread basis, has the choice to file her own complaint, investigate it, and then take it to court. At the moment, she has a very powerful tool as an officer of Parliament to come here, to write an annual report, and to make a special report, which she has done in the past. On occasion, when she wants to or needs to, she can go to go to the Federal Court. It's quite broad.
On April 12th, 2016. See this statement in context.