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An RLC webinar on financial abuse in family law: Understanding the new reforms

Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for a family lawyer to join our Financial Abuse Service which is an integrated, best practice model to assist victim survivors experiencing financial abuse in intimate partner relationships to recover and thrive.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement in the 2025 Federal Budget that it will ban non-compete clauses for workers earning under $175,000.

A report by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) confirms serious problems with the deployment of Body-Worn Video (BWV) cameras by NSW Police.

Do your clients have problem debts?

People receiving refunds for paying invalid COVID fines in NSW will also be paid interest on those amounts, following a successful campaign by Maurice Blackburn and Redfern Legal Centre.

In short: The NSW government will withdraw and repay more than 23,000 fines issued during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government says the notices contained insufficient details about the offence they committed. What's next? Revenue NSW will reach out to all affected individuals and refund them for the fines.

Instead of repayment of invalid fines, Revenue NSW advises on its website it will reallocate the money to any unpaid fine debt.

A webinar: For public and private tenants who experience domestic violence, there are special provisions in NSW tenancy law.

The NSW Government will withdraw and repay more than 23,000 COVID fines, following a successful legal campaign by Redfern Legal Centre and Maurice Blackburn Lawyers.