NDIS Law: Critical Updates - What are Providers Responsible for? Legal Liability of NDIS Providers and Governance Checklist
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Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
9.00am to 10.00am What are Providers Responsible for? Legal Liability of NDIS Providers and Governance Checklist
- Summary of what we have learned so far from the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
- Preparing for the future: what liability do NDIS providers have for abuse, and what changes to the law, regulation, and community expectations are we likely to see flowing from the Royal Commission?
- Conducting a governance health check: signs of healthy and unhealthy governance practices
- Practical guidance on identifying, developing, and implementing policies and procedures to improve the health of your organisation
Presented by Luke Geary, Partner, Mills Oakley; named as Australia’s Non-Profit/Charities Lawyer of the Year 2020 and 2023 and Riley Huntley, Lawyer, Mills Oakley
Presenters
Luke Geary
Luke is a Partner in the Mills Oakley NFPs, Human Rights & Social Impact team in Brisbane and has extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector. Luke has developed a particular expertise in assisting institutions in the disability sector in ensuring their operations are in line with the developing findings of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, for the safety and promotion of inclusion for people with disability. In this regard, Luke is regularly briefed by major institutions to assist in responding to the Royal Commission’s request for documents and information and to prepare submissions for and appear as a legal advisor in public hearings before the Royal Commission. Luke regularly advises Australia’s largest social sector organisations on safeguarding and investigations matters, to ensure good risk management and compliance within those entities and the stakeholders they support. Luke was named one of Australia’s Best Lawyers for Non-Profit/Charities Law in the 2023/2024 Best Lawyers list for the eighth consecutive year, including in both 2020 and 2023 being named as Australia’s Non-Profit/Charities ‘Lawyer of the Year’.
Riley Huntley
Riley is a Lawyer in the NFPs, Human Rights & Social Impact team in Brisbane. Riley regularly acts for individuals in matters of public interest and cases involving human rights issues. Riley also has experience in assisting institutional clients, including large not-for-profits, charities, representative bodies and service providers, responding to claims for damages involving historical child abuse, Royal Commissions, corporate governance failures and membership disputes. Riley has experience acting for institutions and individuals across a range of areas including: Acting on behalf of survivors of child abuse in civil claims against government and other institutions as well as perpetrators directly; Assisting institutions with Counsel in litigated civil claims for damages for historical child abuse in Supreme and District Courts across Australia; Assisting not-for-profits and charities with Counsel in matters involving corporate governance failures, membership disputes and successor institutions before the Supreme Courts across Australia; Advising on regulatory compliance, including on child abuse reporting and working with children’s check obligations under various state-based legislation; Acting on behalf of Charities in debt recovery actions; Assisting individuals who are the victims of defamation in obtaining urgent injunctive relief and; Acting on behalf of individuals in Child Protection proceedings. Riley is a winner of the LawyersWeekly Australian Law Awards Legal Support Professional of the Year 2022. She has a graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (College of Law) and is a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) / Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Human Physiology) (Queensland University of Technology).