Legal Issues

Court conciliation sees $40M senior housing development approved on NSW Far South Coast

Much-needed senior housing is going to be built in the town of Merimbula, 240km southeast of Canberra. Matthew Pullinger, Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court, said conciliation talks between Bega Shire Council and the...

Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2024

Legal Issues

Why three-year fight to build 233 independent living units in NSW Mid North Coast is doomed

Congarinni North Pty Ltd’s appeal to the NSW Land & Environment Court to build 233 independent living units with recreational facilities, residential and visitor car parking on a 57.3ha site at Congarinni North, 1km northwest of Macksville, in...

Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2024

Legal Issues

ARQRV receives $139,000 to inform prospective clients of retirement villages

Judy Mayfield, President of the Association of Residents of Queensland Retirement Villages (ARQRV), said her organisation has been funded by the Queensland Government to provide advice to prospective clients. “We have a grant for $139,000 to tell...

Ian Horswill

09 Apr 2024

Legal Issues

St Basil’s Home for the Aged in Fawkner, Melbourne, to face criminal trial

St Basil’s was committed to stand trial on all charges and the matter is now listed for a Directions Hearing in the Melbourne County Court on 16 April 2024

Caroline Egan

28 Mar 2024

Legal Issues

Retirement living resident John Salter jailed for four years for murdering wife in pact

Life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years is the presumptive sentence for murder in New Zealand except in circumstances where it would be manifestly unjust. 80-year-old John Salter’s case is one of those circumstances His...

Ian Horswill

05 Mar 2024

Finance

Lendlease states Australian Tax Office audit of its 2018 part-sale of its retirement living business a contingent liability

Lawyer and previous tax advisor, Tony Watson, blew the whistle on the advice Lendlease was given and implemented

Ian Horswill

26 Feb 2024

Legal Issues

Statutory duties in the draft Aged Care Act

Earlier in the week, MinterEllison Partner, Penelope Eden, who lead the firm’s Aged Care practice, hosted a webinar to go through the proposed changes in the new Aged Care Act. She was joined by Virginia Bourke, Chair of large Not For Profit aged...

Caroline Egan

15 Feb 2024

Aged Care

Faulty movement detectors likely contributed to aged care death, Coroner says

The care received by Aubrey Reeve, resident of Umina Park Home for the Aged, leading up to his death on 24 July 2023 was “not of an acceptable standard” and “likely contributed” to the fall that caused his death, said the Coroner of the Magistrate’s Court of Tasmania, Simon Cooper, in December last year.

Caroline Egan

24 Jan 2024

Development

Living Gems seek to build 351-home land lease community in Rockhampton, QLD

The Puljich family business, which remains separate from GemLife, had lodged a development application to build its latest land lease community on the site of Rockhampton Golf Driving Range and Mini Golf in the suburb of Parkhurst, which states it...

Ian Horswill

09 Jan 2024

Legal Issues

Man charged with sexual assault of aged care resident, 76

A 29-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting an elderly woman in an aged care home in Coffs Harbour, on the NSW North Coast, allegedly wore a stocking over his face and put his hand over her mouth to stop her screaming, before police say she...

Ian Horswill

09 Jan 2024

Legal Issues

Federal Court judge reduces legal firm’s costs against Aveo in class action settlement

Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy reduced the costs Sydney law firm Levitt Robinson claimed in its class action against retirement village provider Aveo. In May last year, Levitt Robinson and Aveo agreed that the introduction of the Aveo Way...

Ian Horswill

09 Jan 2024

Government Policy

Workers on skills shortage visas gain new pathway to permanent residency

From 25 November 2023, eligible skilled workers in Australia on Temporary Skills Shortage (TSS) visas in the Short-Term Stream, now have access to a pathway to permanent residency through new laws announced in April 2023.

Caroline Egan

29 Nov 2023

Legal Issues

90-year-old woman dies after alleged sexual assault in Central Coast aged care facility

Police have reported that the 90-year-old woman who was allegedly raped in a Central Coast aged care facility, died in hospital on Tuesday morning.

Caroline Egan

29 Nov 2023