Dear W Donald,

 

I refer to your request of 28 March 2023. The New Zealand Law Review Prize
regulations stipulate that three Prizes are awarded annually. Your
requests for the information about the grades/marks of the recipients  are
refused under section 9(2)(a) of the Official Information Act, to protect
the privacy of the recipients. Your requests for the University to create
custom statistics for the recipients for the years 2019-2021 are refused
under section 18(e) of the Official Information Act, as the University
does not hold this information and is not required by the Act to create
it. You have the right to make a complaint to an Ombudsman if you are
dissatisfied with this response.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor

University of Auckland

 

 

From: W Donald <[1][FOI #22294 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2023 5:08 am
To: legal <[2][University of Auckland request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - NZLR Prize 2021-2023

 

Dear University of Auckland,

The purpose of this request is to enable those eligible for the New
Zealand Law Review prize to verify the integrity of the selection process.
Please provide the following information for recipients of the New Zealand
Law Review prize awarded in each of the years of 2021, 2022, and 2023 (for
students having completed Part-II Law in the years of 2020, 2021, and
2022):

a) the lowest weighted average (used to determine eligibility for the New
Zealand Law Review Prize) of the New Zealand Law Review Prize in each year

b) the mean weighted average (used to determine eligibility for the New
Zealand Law Review Prize) of recipients of the New Zealand Law Review
Prize in each year

If the information cannot be provided as requested above on privacy
grounds, in the alternative please report:

c) the single highest of all yearly lowest weighted averages as described
in request (a) over the years requested in an alternative to request (a)

d) the mean weighted average of all recipients over the years requested in
an alternative for request (b)

Such alternatives would not risk disclosing sensitive data of individual
recipients due to the number of years for which information has been
requested. I note that a somewhat similar request by F Fitzgerald on 1
March 2022 was partially successful and reported the actual weighted
averages of four individuals without the possibility of identifying the
individuals due to the three-year range of years reported.

Yours faithfully,

W Donald

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