NDIS Law Intensive: Updates on NDIS Compliance and Obligations & Supported Decision Making
With worries about not having enough participant funds and the expected annual funding exceeding $125 billion by 2034, it's important to plan strategically. Review the impact of the final report from the Royal Commission on Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability. Make sure you comply with regulations and understand the powers of the NDIS Commission. Be across the issues and conflicts involved with disability, capacity, & supported decision-making. 246N18
Description
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
6 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Session 1
NDIS: Royal Commission Interim Report, Compliance Obligations and Restrictive Practices
Chair: Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
9.00am to 10.00am Follow-up on the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability Final Report
- Examining the work of the Royal Commission thus far
- The Interim Report
- Where to from here?
Presented by Alison Choy Flannigan, Partner, Hall & Wilcox; Honorary Fellowship with Australasian College of Health Service Management 2022, Best Lawyers 2024, Biotechnology Law, Health & Aged Care Law; Best Lawyers 2023, Retirement Villages & Senior Living Law
Professional Skills
10.00am to 11.00am NDIS Compliance Obligations and Regulatory Powers of the NDIS Commission
- Complaints
- Incident reporting
- Compliance and enforcement actions
- NDIS Code of Conduct
- Workforce requirements
Presented by Brad Fitzgerald, Lawyer, Educator, Griffith Law School, Non-Executive Director for Not-for-Profit Organisations
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm Restrictive Practices: Law and Case Update
- The legal issues of restrictive practices and the NDIS scheme
- Dealing with the serious consequences of getting it wrong
- Lawful defences: no excuses
- Civil claims damages and criminal consequences
- Recent cases
Presented by Rodney Lewis, Senior Solicitor, Elderlaw Legal Services; Recommended Health & Aged Care Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2023
12.15pm to 1.15pm Current Case Law to Keep an Eye On
Join a very special session as Kylie Hyde reviews key developments and significant cases in NDIS law from the last 12 months and shares knowledge that will set you up for the year ahead.
Presented by Kylie Hyde, Solicitor, Legal Aid NSW Coffs Harbour
Session 2
NDIS: Where are We at with Supported Decision Making?
Chair: Michael Perkins, Principal Lawyer, Autonomy First Lawyers
2.00pm to 2.15pm Keynote Address
Presented by Carmelle Peisah, Conjoint Professor University of New South Wales; Clinical Associate Professor Sydney University; and founder and president of the charity Capacity Australia
2.15pm to 3.00pm Bridging Insights from the New Aged Care Act to the NDIS Sector
- How is supported decision making approached in NDIS and Aged Care?
- How is the NDIS participant affected by whether or not they reside in a state or territory with a Human Rights Act?
- How does the regime for plan nominees in NDIS interact with the role of guardians and attorneys?
- Is supported decision making merely a method of care rather than representation?
- How solid are the constitutional foundations of NDIS now with the new Aged Care Act?
Presented by Michael Perkins, Principal Lawyer, Autonomy First Lawyers
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Financial and Funding Issues: The Practicalities of Making a Choice
- Dignity of risk and the right to make decisions
- Managing the funds of people at risk
- The role of private money as a supplement to NDIS
- Advocacy for more funding: The role of a professional and limitations
- Housing and SDA issues
- Management and monitoring of participants funds
- NDIS funding within the Aged Care setting
- Taking a second look: how to review decisions
Presented by William Johns, Managing Director and Principal Financial Planner, Health and Finance Integrated Pty Ltd
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm Supported Decision Making in 2024 & Beyond
- What, Why, How and When
- Helpful tools: Supported Decision Making Guide, Circle of Support
- Challenges: unhelpful helpers, time, system pressures
Presented by Rebecca Anderson, Solicitor, ADA Law; Chair, Queensland Law Society Elder Law Committee
Presenters
Kim Boettcher
Kim is a Barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Kim practises in Equity, Common Law, Protective and Guardianship Law, and in the Probate and Succession List. Prior to coming to the Bar, she practised as a Solicitor in commercial and civil litigation law in England and Wales, New South Wales and Queensland. More recently, she was a Solicitor at the Seniors Rights Service, an independent legal centre and regularly attended the UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing in New York as a civil society representative. Kim was appointed to the NSW Minister of Fair Trading's Retirement Villages Advisory Council in 2013 and also to the Minister's Expert Committee on Retirement Villages Standard Contract Terms and Disclosure Documents in 2011. Kim was a Member of the inaugural Legal Services Council in 2014 and reappointed from 2017-2020. She is a past Treasurer of the International Commission of Jurists Australia and was appointed to the NSW Bar Association’s Succession and Elder Law Committee in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Alison Choy Flannigan
With over 25 years of corporate, commercial and regulatory experience, Alison has specialised in advising clients in the health, aged care, retirement living, disability, life sciences and community sectors. Alison co-leads the Health & Community Practice at National Law firm, Hall & Wilcox. Alison has been listed in The Best Lawyers in Australia (and the Australian Financial Review) since 2008 for Health & Aged Care and also Retirement Living and Biotechnology. She has been recognised in the Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession as a Leading Health and Aged Care Lawyer each and every year since 2017. Alison has been a finalist for the Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year in Health every year since 2016 and won this prestigious award in 2019, 2020 and 2021. She was a finalist in the Lawyers Weekly, Women in Law Awards, Partner of the Year - Big Law, 2019 and 2021.
Brad Fitzgerald
Brad Fitzgerald is a Director of Clements Fitzgerald Lawyers and specialises in Mental Health and Disability Law, Regulatory Compliance and Litigation, and Criminal Defence. Brad's experience has included serving as General Counsel, and at times as the Commissioner, at the Legal Services Commission - the regulatory body for lawyers in Queensland, the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist within Queensland Health, and in private legal practice. Brad designs and lectures courses related to Mental Health Law at Griffith University and serves as a board director of not-for-profit organisations, including those in the health and disability sector.
Rodney Lewis
Author of the text: Elder Law in Australia, 2nd edn, Lexis Nexis, Sydney 2012; has practised in Elder Law since 1999 and longer, in wills and estates; has been delivering elder law education by way of talks and seminars to the legal profession and to the community, in elder law, for many years.
Kylie Hyde
Kylie Hyde is currently a Solicitor with the Civil Law team at Legal Aid Coffs Harbour. Kylie currently provides general civil law advice across a range of issues, including issues relating to the NDIS. Kylie as part of this team provides education sessions to medical and allied health professionals and members of the community, particularly in relation to the NDIS and DSP. Kylie was previously the Senior Solicitor, Disability Law with the Mid North Coast Legal Centre and Disability Advocacy NSW. Prior to joining the Mid North Coast Legal Centre Kylie was with Legal Aid in the Government Law NDIS team. Kylie has an extensive background in litigation, starting in private practice in a regional firm, and then working overseas as a Legal Officer for two London Boroughs, before returning to work in Sydney and then back to Coffs Harbour. Kylie has a particular interest in systemic issues impacting on individuals living with a disability. Kylie has previously appeared as a witness before the Senate Inquiry into the Purpose, Intent and Adequacy of the DSP.
Michael Perkins
Michael is a lawyer, author, and educator with over 30 years’ experience in trusts, estates and private client practice. He is a strong supporter of Supported Decision Making as a method of client care in professional practice and dealing with the orderly management of a person’s longevity as they age. Michael helps resolve broader complexity and conflict in the lives of his clients, where possible without resort to litigation or other dispute resolution processes. This capability is born from Michael’s decades of knowledge of the law and deep understanding of how families need to operate to sustain themselves across generations. Michael helps clients deal with the practical, policy, strategic and operational needs of their wealth conservation, estate governance and administration and succession objectives.
Professor Carmelle Peisah
Carmelle Peisah is a medical practitioner and specialist Old Age Psychiatrist, Consultation-Liaison psychiatrist and Family-Systems Therapist. She is Conjoint Professor and Ageing Futures Institute Investigator, University of New South Wales; Clinical Professor, University of Sydney; and Special Instructor, Chang Mai University Thailand. She is Founder-President of human rights charity Capacity Australia, and in 2021 was recognised by Expertscape as a World Expert in Human Rights (in the top 0.1% of Human Rights Scholars in the previous 10 years). She served for a decade as a Professional Member of the Former NSW Guardianship Tribunal (Now Guardianship Division, NSW Civil Administration Tribunal). She is widely published in the areas of aged care, capacity and human rights and is co-author of the e-Text Capacity and the Law https://austlii.community/wiki/Books/CapacityAndTheLaw/.
William Johns
William is a pioneer in the areas of disability and illness personal finance. Uniquely, William combines extremely rare insight being dually qualified. He is a disability expert and has been recognised as an emerging leader by the Australian Government. He is a highly skilled and qualified Certified Financial Planner, and has been awarded Australia’s highest achievements by the Financial Planning Association of Australia. Using his skills, he has helped hundreds of Australians move forward with certainty in highly stressful situations. In order to deliver such outcomes, the person’s situation is examined thoroughly including how our services could be delivered in an accessible way.
Rebecca Anderson
Rebecca Anderson is a human rights advocate for Aged and Disability Advocacy (ADA) Australia. She completed her undergraduate degree in law at the Queensland University of Technology, and postgraduate degree in law at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her special interest is adults with questionable capacity, and the intersection of health and justice.
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Legalwise Seminars - Pitt Street
Level 11 70 Pitt Street
Sydney 2000 NSW
Australia
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