Chair
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Legislative NDIS Reforms Update: The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No,1) Bill 2024: Update
- How do the legislative reforms try to clarify the interface between the NDIS and other service systems such as criminal justice and health?
- How does the new Act shape the future calculation of funding and the range of supports available under the NDIS?
- How might the rollout of foundational supports and revised early intervention programmes affect eligibility for the scheme?
- How does the new Act revise the oversight of spending, compliance and the quality of supports provided by the scheme?
Presented by Dr Darren O’Donovan, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Law School
Presenters
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
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.
Dr Darren O’Donovan, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Law School
Dr Darren O'Donovan commenced as a Senior Lecturer in La Trobe Law School in July 2016. Darren holds a BCL (Hons), and a PhD from University College Cork, Ireland, where he also lectured from 2009-2012. Darren's main teaching and research specialisation is Administrative Law. He has written extensively on rights, oversight and public administration, including the book Law and Public Administration in Ireland (co-authored with Dr Fiona Donson). Much of Darren's work has reflected upon the centrality of non-judicial review bodies and first instance decision-makers to delivering administrative justice. These ideas also featured in his examination of the Office of the Ombudsman which was published in the leading international law journal, Public Law. Drawing upon these themes, Darren is currently undertaking research projects in relation to the National Disability Insurance Scheme and social security system.
