Documents relating to pseudolegal and sovereign citizen legal beliefs

Glenn Hamiltonshire made this Freedom of Information request to Attorney-General's Department

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Glenn Hamiltonshire
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Dear Attorney-General's Department,

This is a Freedom of Information Request for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

I reuqest access to any briefs, documents, or memos produced by the Attorney-General's Department for the purposes of legal assistance services relating to any of the following:

1. "Sovereign citizen" beliefs, or any similarly described movement describing the 'sovereign citizen movement' as it is known from time to time;
2. "Pseudolaw", "pseudolegal beliefs" or any other similarly discribed vews as termed from time to time.

Please exclude duplicates and documents already publicly released, including media releases, reports, articles and statements to the media.
Please limit emails to the final message in the chain as long as previous messages are captured.
I agree to having the names and direct contact details of non-senior staff removed, however I request that redactions do not include non-personally identifying information. For example, please leave the domain and job titles when redacting email addresses or signature blocks on emails.
I preemptively agree to requests for third party consultation if necessary, but would prefer that my information about my identity is not shared with those consulted.’

Yours faithfully,

Glenn Hamiltonshire

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