Call for Witnesses

Knox Grammar School is a prestigious independent boys’ school located on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Its reputation was marred by a paedophile ring exposed by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Sexual Abuse in 2015. Regrettably, the damage caused to the victims was not resolved by the exposure.

Koffels Solicitors & Barristers are currently acting for numerous victims of Adrian Nisbett, with allegations of sexual abuse spanning a period between 1976 and 2002.

Adrian Nisbett was employed at Knox Grammar School between 1971 and 2004 in various roles, including as a teacher, boarding house Master, counsellor & Year Master.

Dr Patterson was the Headmaster between 1969 and 1998. Dr Patterson gave a statement to NSW Police indicating that contemporaneous complaints of institutional child sexual abuse by Adrian Nisbett had mysteriously “disappeared”. Nisbett also ‘disappeared’, with his liquidated assets, to South Africa, avoiding a default judgment for damages secondary to sexual abuse at Knox occurring in 1976. Sadly, the devastation caused by Nisbett is continuing and very real – it has not disappeared.

Koffels Solicitors is issuing a call-out for witnesses, including former students and teachers, further to allegations of child sexual abuse occurring at Knox Grammar School between 1971 and 2004.

If you have any information concerning historical institutional child sexual abuse at Knox Grammar School by Adrian Nisbett or any other teacher, would you kindly please help sexual abuse survivors by completing the form below or by calling Koffels Solicitors & Barristers on 02 9283 5599. Your call will be confidential, obligation-free, and most appreciated.