I am concerned with the creation of this additional layer in the process. I'm concerned, obviously, not because I'm concerned with the issue of fairness towards companies who would be the subject of order-making. I totally get the point that it is important that the system as a whole provides fairness to both complainants and companies. However, to our knowledge, there is no other jurisdiction that has this additional layer between the Privacy Commissioner and the courts. We think that the courts are perfectly capable of reviewing our processes to ensure that companies are dealt with fairly.
The end result of the creation of this tribunal, as I said and as you noted, is that rather than having a conversation between us and a company where, at the first opportunity, we try to make things right, companies would be encouraged to use these avenues of redress, which would considerably lengthen the process and which would be a huge issue for citizens.