The Advocate – Spring 2019
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Your protections when giving evidence to the Disability Royal Commission
Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc. has prepared a Question and Answer Guide addressing your protections when giving evidence to the Royal Commission. Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc. wants to assist you to share your experience of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation with the Disability Royal Commission. The Commission wants to hear your full…
Annual General Meeting
Dear Members, Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc. has much pleasure in inviting you to its Annual General Meeting. Notice of 2019 Annual General Meeting Annual General Meeting Wednesday 27th November, 2019 at 5.00 p.m. If you are a member and have not received your invitation, please contact us on (03) 5227 3338 or legal@villamanta.org.au
Castledine and National Disability Insurance Agency
Castledine and National Disability Insurance Agency [2019] discusses evidence, and ‘reasonable and necessary’ practice coaching and travel.
Dates for Duty Lawyer Service – Regional
We are pleased to announce the next round of VCAT Guardianship List duty lawyer attendances at Shepparton, Morwell and Ballarat. If you wish to see one of our lawyers, you can simply turn up at VCAT on the day, or you can contact us to make an appointment. Don’t forget we are also at William…
Duty lawyer goes regional!
We are pleased to announce that our VCAT duty lawyer service for guardianship and administration matters will be making regional attendances next month. We provide free legal advice and assistance to people who are the subject of a guardianship or administration application. If there is a hearing about you on the day we are there,…
Statement regarding NVWC and National Disability Insurance Agency
In NVWC and National Disability Insurance Agency [2019], NVWC was funded for maintenance of their mobility scooter when their eligibility for NDIS was granted for autism spectrum disorder and psychosocial disability.
Duty Lawyer Service – VCAT Pilot
Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc. are combining with Deakin University’s Deakin Law Clinic to provide a Duty Lawyer service at the Guardianship List of VCAT in Melbourne. The Duty Lawyer service will operate on Wednesdays, starting Wednesday 7th August, until further notice. If you have a Guardianship List hearing coming up, you can contact…
DDY v Hrun Pty Ltd
In DDY v Hrun Pty Ltd (Residential Tenancies) [2016], DDY was refunded accommodation and services fees from an SRS that had charged her when she was not living there.
AVW v Nadrasca Ltd
In AVW v Nadrasca Ltd (Residential Tenancies) [2017], the disability services provider wanted to evict AVW from his home. But the provider had not done everything possible to avoid evicting him.