Papers and submissions

RLC’s submission calls for better consumer protections in the regulations governing pay day lending and consumer lease services.

RLC is acutely concerned with the impact of financial abuse on vulnerable women, having directly observed its demoralising effect upon vulnerable and traumatised women.

RLC's submission highlights limited funding available to legal service providers and over-policing leading to an overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals within the criminal justice system.

RLC’s submission focuses upon the impact of unscrupulous marketing and promotional practices on vulnerable and disadvantaged consumers.

Redfern Legal Centre has a long history of providing assistance, advice and advocacy to the local community, including many clients with problems involving access to energy.

From August 2009 to June 2010, RLC undertook a community legal education pilot project about credit and debt in the Marrickville LGA targeting the CALD communities in that municipality.

RLC's submission focused upon three key issues of access and equity in the financial system for vulnerable and disadvantaged consumers - financial exclusion, financial hardship and financial literacy.

Read RLC's submission.

A recurring hindrance to efficient debt recovery process is the pursuit of ‘unrecoverable’ debts.

It is our position that a statutory cause of action for serious invasions of privacy is a necessary and overdue legislative reform that enhances and protects an individual's right to privacy in the 21st century.