Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
NDIS Commission: Regulatory Compliance Matters
- Current priorities for regulating providers and workers
- What are the Commission’s regulatory levers?
- Some examples of noncompliance and the tools applied
- Roadmap for responding to a complaint
- What actions can providers take to proposed regulatory action
Presented by Gemma McGrath, Managing Director, Panetta McGrath; Preeminent Medical Negligence and Malpractice (Defendant), Doyle’s Guide 2023, Recognised, Insurance Law and Professional Malpractice Litigation, Best Lawyers
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.
Gemma McGrath, Managing Director, Panetta McGrath
Gemma McGrath is a Director of Panetta McGrath Lawyers and specialises in providing advice to health practitioners and hospitals in civil claims for negligence and disciplinary proceedings. Prior to studying law, she trained as a registered nurse. Gemma is also an NMAS Accredited Mediator providing professional mediation services in workplace mediation and in the health, aged care and disability sectors. She is recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a pre-eminent Western Australian medical negligence and malpractice lawyer (Defendant). She is also named in Best Lawyers in the categories of insurance law and professional malpractice litigation. Gemma is a member of the Australasian Professional Indemnity Group, Australian Insurance Law Association and Law Society of Western Australia. She is also a member of the St John of God Health Care Scientific Review Sub Committee and a Board member of Alzheimer’s WA, a not for profit organisation providing support for people living with all types of dementia.
