Koffels can offer advice as to the requirements for Australian Financial Services Licences, and Australian Credit Licences with ASIC as well as drafting Credit Applications for Sellers of Goods & Services.
For Borrowers, we advise on all Credit Applications for Finance for Homes and all Property Loans; and in so doing, deal with the Brokers and Lenders.
Rights & Obligation of Debtors and Creditors.
A wave of litigation against social media giants is beginning to reshape the legal landscape. In K.G.M. v Meta, a US jury accepted that platform design can give rise to liability, marking a significant shift with potential implications for Australian law.
Before making a claim for historical abuse it is important to understand the differences between civil justice and compensation.
Australia’s counter-terror laws have expanded steadily for more than two decades, each reform justified by the urgency of crisis. From the sweeping legal response to 9/11 to the aftermath of the Lindt Café siege, successive governments have built an increasingly preventative security framework. The legislative reaction to the December Bondi attack may represent a new stage in this trajectory. Measures framed as responses to extremism now reach beyond terrorism itself, regulating protest activity and political speech. Viewed through the lens of incrementalism, these developments raise complex questions.
NSW is on the cusp of reshaping one of the most influential rules in criminal trials – the use of good character evidence. The proposed reforms are poised to recalibrate how character evidence is deployed, signalling a shift in how NSW criminal law balanced faitness to the accused with the realities of institutional and sexual abuse cases.