Koffels Solicitors & Barristers

A quick overview of Australia’s National Redress Scheme, its process, compensation limits, and how it compares to civil claims for survivors of institutional abuse.

We are currently investigating allegations of institutional child sexual abuse that took place at the Chidley Educational Centre in Mosman Park, Western Australia. If you or anyone you know has any information that could change someone’s life, please come forward.

Marist Brothers Penshurst, like many other Marist Brothers schools, has a frightening history of child sexual abuse. Some of the perpetrators associated with Marist Brothers Penshurst include: Brother Kostka, Brother Norman Keyes, Greg Hammond, Bill “Jedda” Allen and the infamous Robert “Dolly” Dunn.

Families often face situations where Parenting Orders issued overseas must be recognised and enforced in Australia. This article explores the conditions under which overseas Parenting Orders can be enforceable in Australia.

St. Joseph’s Nudgee College established in 1891 by the Christian Brothers, holds a dark legacy.of terrible abuses by Stephen McLaughlin, Dennis Norman Douglas amd Brother John Regan.

We are conducting a thorough investigation into allegations of abuse perpetrated by Nicholas Frampton, who was a music teacher at Kardinia International College in Bell Post Hill, Geelong, Victoria, during the mid-2000s.

the findings of the Beaumaris Inquiry into schools during the 1960s and 1970 focussed on Beaumaris Primary School and the historical child sexual abuses perpetrated by Graham Steele, Darrell Ray, David MacGregor and “Wyatt”.

Arthur Henry Eaton, a state school teacher, was convicted in 1996 of 25 counts of indecently assaulting nine boys.

The history of Brother John Climacus Kissane, a member of the Christian Brothers, reveals serious misconduct in several Catholic schools across Victoria and Tasmania.