Bill 2024, Royal Commission Interim Report, Compliance Obligations and Restrictive Practices
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Attend and earn 4 CPD hour including
3 hours in Substantive Law
1 hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
*This is an interactive recording, which allows you to claim all your annual CPD points
Chair: Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
NDIS Amendment & Follow-up on the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability Final Report
- Bill 2024
- NDIS Amendment
- 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
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, Director, Clements Fitzgerald Lawyers
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 AM, Senior Solicitor, Elderlaw Legal Services; Recommended Health & Aged Care Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2023
Q&A format dealing with the following issues: Workplace compliance issues in the NDIS sector
- Recent legislative changes to the Fair Work Act affecting NDIS employers:
- Multiple business bargaining
- Platform workers and independent contractors
- Wage theft
- Challenges with the SCHADS Award
- Recent workplace safety cases and psychosocial safety
Presented by Erin McCarthy, Partner, Piper Alderman; Recognised in Best Lawyers in Australia, Doyle's Guide as a leading Employment Lawyer
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 Protective 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 AM
Rodney Lewis has been a solicitor in Sydney for over 50 years. His law practice has involved him acting on business and commercial law, property law, business litigation and wills and estate administration work. In 1999 Rodney began part time lecturing university graduates and undergraduates in a new - Australian first - course in elder law. Rodney is also the author of the text book Elder Law in Australia, first published by Lexis Nexis in 2004, which is now pending its third edition.
Erin McCarthy
Erin McCarthy is a specialist employment partner based in Adelaide. She has fifteen years' experience in providing advice to employers and employer associations on all aspects of occupational health and safety, employment and industrial relations law as well as delivering essential information seminars and training workshops on key employment issues. Erin has experience providing advice in relation to performance management, misconduct investigations and unfair dismissal claims, bullying, discrimination and harassment matters and occupational health and safety issues including support clients during investigations, defending prosecutions and risk management and policy development. Erin is a co-, author with Professor Andrew Stewart and Elise Jenkin of Parental Leave: A User Friendly Guide published by Thomson Reuters. The book examines the practical interaction between various leave entitlements as well as managing pregnant employees in the workplace and return to work from parental leave. As a part of the Piper Alderman Employment Relations national team, Erin advises clients in all states and territories in Australia. In 2015 she was once again listed in the peer-selected "Best Lawyers, Australia" in the practice area of Labour and Employment.