Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Appealing a NDIS Decision to the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART)
- Recap of process of internal and external merits review
- Limitations of ART to address all participant “issues”
- Tips for providers when asked to provide evidence in an ART matter
- Reforms to the ART (October 2024) and impact on NDIS
- Appeals to the Federal Court of Australia
Presented by Angela Cox, Principal Lawyer, Special Voices Disability Law & Advocacy
Chair
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Presenters
Angela Cox, Principal Lawyer, Special Voices Disability Law & Advocacy
Angela is a Melbourne-based disability lawyer. She specialises in solving the unique legal and bureaucratic challenges faced by parents and siblings of people with intellectual disability and autism throughout their lifetime. Growing up with a brother with Down syndrome, and being active in his care as adults, drove Angela's passion to help families in a similar situation. This motivated her to become a disability lawyer and establish her legal practice, Special Voices, in 2017. For the past four years, Special Voices has almost exclusively focused on supporting families navigate NDIS appeals processes. Angela has represented many NDIS participants and their families at the Administrative Review Tribunal and advocated for them in other aspects of the NDIS. She has developed a reputation as an expert in NDIS matters related to children with autism, and early childhood intervention.
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Kim is a Barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Kim practises in Equity, Property 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 London, Sydney and Brisbane. 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 was Treasurer of the International Commission of Jurists Australia and the NSW Bar Association’s Succession and Elder Law Committee from 2021-2024. She is now a member of the Human Rights Committee and NSW Regional Women Lawyers even though she usually has to work in Sydney.
