News and Events

Redfern Legal Centre has an opportunity for an Employment Law Solicitor to join our team and contribute to the Employment Rights Legal Service (ERLS).

Recordings and resources for webinars on fines and penalty notices in NSW.

Today the NSW Supreme Court published its reasons in a test case about COVID-19 fines. The decision clarifies the requirements necessary for a fine to be valid, and calls into disrepute all the remaining 29,017 COVID-19 fines that have not been withdrawn.

Legal Aid NSW has published an updated version of its 'Fined Out' booklet, produced in collaboration with Inner City Legal Centre and Redfern Legal Centre.

Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the introduction of a world-first ‘workplace justice’ visa that will enable exploited migrants to stay in Australia for a short period to enforce their workplace rights. 

Let's Talk About Confidentiality is a research report published on 6 March 2024 by Sharmilla Bargon and Regina Featherstone, the inaugural Social Justice Practitioners-in-Residence at The University of Sydney. In August 2023, Bargon and Featherstone set out to find how sexual harassment practitioners were resolving out-of-court sexual harassment settlements and how they approached confidentiality terms.

Help your clients work out whether they are getting paid properly at work, and what to do about it if they aren't.

Today, the second COVID Fine case brought by Redfern Legal Centre was back in the Supreme Court. 

Redfern Legal Centre has filed another NSW Supreme Court application seeking the withdrawal of a COVID fine on the grounds of invalidity. 33,000 COVID fines were withdrawn following the first Supreme Court case in late 2022, and 29,000 remain.

On what grounds are the fines being challenged... And what happens if you've already paid the fine?