North Coast Criminal Law

North Coast Criminal Law was established in 2025 and focuses exclusively on criminal law. Jonathon Paff is the Director and Managing Solicitor, having been admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW in 2015. He worked as a criminal solicitor at Legal Aid NSW from 2018 and at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions from 2021. In 2022, he managed a team of six lawyers at Legal Aid NSW, and in 2024 he gave expert evidence to a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into drug reform.

The firm services all courts across the Mid-North and North Coast, including Taree, Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Macksville, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Maclean, Lismore, Ballina and Byron Bay. The firm has a decade of legal experience and its expertise covers all criminal law matters from murder and commercial drug supply to assault, fraud and traffic offences. It has represented hundreds of clients in driving and traffic offences across Northern NSW.

North Coast Criminal Law is a criminal law practice in Coffs Harbour, working from the Bailey Centre on Pacific Highway. The firm handles criminal law representation, and one client describes a court outcome achieved for a son facing proceedings.

That account highlights the professionalism and effort behind the result, and expresses gratitude for an outcome that lets the family focus on a more positive direction without an adverse court result threatening it. The review points to representation in court as the core of the work, and to a client who felt well served by what was done on their behalf.