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
Chair
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
NDIS Compliance Trends and Case Studies
- Recap of enforcement powers
- Recent compliance trends including audit non-compliance
- Compliance case studies including civil penalties, infringement notices and banning orders
Presented by Madeline Walsh, Partner, Thomson Geer
Presenters
Madeline Walsh, Partner, Thomson GeerMadeline is a Partner in the Health, Aged Care and Retirement Living team at Thomson Geer and the Deputy Chair of the Queensland Law Society Elder Law Committee. Madeline's expertise encompasses a broad spectrum of legal issues in the health, aged care, and retirement sectors, including regulatory compliance, risk management, governance, disputes and transactional matters. Madeline provides advice to aged care providers on managing complex regulatory issues and responding to administrative decisions. She assists providers with critical incident investigations and acts for providers in coronial investigations and inquests. Madeline advises providers in relation to corporate and commercial matters including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, advising in relation to governance arrangements and assisting providers with managing disputes including complex consumer complaints and fee recoveries. In the retirement village context, Madeline advises on operational contracts, compliance matters, regulatory issues including closures and redevelopments and commercial and resident disputes.
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.
