Stephen Booth
- Consultant
- Estate Planning & Special Disability Trusts
Biography
Stephen Booth is a Consultant to Coleman Greig, focusing on Estate Planning.
He has a particular interest in assisting families who have loved ones with intellectual disabilities or mental illness to ensure they have appropriate plans in place for the future.
Having worked with parents and carers in this area since 1983, Stephen has developed a profound respect for how parents and carers handle the many challenges they and their families face.
Having practised as a lawyer since 1982, Stephen has worked across a range of legal areas including litigation and competition and trade practices law, with a particular focus on employment law. Stephen joined Coleman Greig in 1987 and established Coleman Greig’s Employment Law & Business Migration Team in 1994, and was Team Leader till 2020, when he retired from full-time practice as a Principal Lawyer.
Stephen was recognised as Most Outstanding Legal Practitioner in Special Disability Trusts in Australia in 2022 in the 2022 Enablement Awards.
Expertise
People like us
“I have developed a profound respect for how parents and carers handle the many challenges that they and their families face and am passionate about making sure they can properly plan for the future” - Stephen Booth
- Experience
- Qualifications and Memberships
- Wills and Estate Planning
- Trusts
- Special Disability Trusts, dealing with intellectual disability or mental health issues. Advising families and carers on structures that will protect and promote the interests of their family members or friends with a disability or mental illness and optimise the management of their inheritance and other benefits, including social security entitlements.
- Author of plain English language guides for the Federal Government in estate planning and Special Disability Trusts to assist people with disabilities and their families – Planning for the Future, and, Getting Things Sorted (2006).
- Author of When I’m Gone, a guide to will-making for parents of children with an intellectual disability (1999).
Bachelor of Economics BEc
Bachelor of Laws LLB
Master of Laws LLM
Law Society of NSW
- Current Events
- Upcoming Events
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Performance Management, Feedback and Managing Terminations
This workshop is designed to ensure managers and HR decision-makers understand their obligations and responsibilities in regard to critical HR tasks. It will minimise potential risk to the business from an Employment Law perspective and help to ensure appropriate procedures and protocols are followed. What will be covered? General requirements: The 3 Warnings model and…
Employment Contracts and Policies
Employing staff is one of the most important things a business does. Getting the right people and having a common understanding of what is expected from the start is essential for the whole employment relationship. How that relationship is established at the beginning is critical, particularly if it is necessary to part ways with the…
Leave Entitlements
Managing the details of leave entitlements is an ongoing challenge for HR and payroll, and with Fair Work’s 4 Yearly review producing changes to annual leave and introducing Award-based domestic violence leave, it’s important to be on top of the new rules. This workshop will discuss these changes, and answer all those “curly questions” about…
Terminations: WHS, Drugs and Alcohol
Termination of employment for reasons related to drugs and alcohol or unsafe conduct can be particularly difficult. Questions of policy, process and proof abound. In this workshop our experienced employment lawyers will address: preparing the ground: D&A and WHS policies and procedures proof of D&A offences: testing options and evidence setting D&A standards: zero tolerance…
Modern Slavery, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Privacy and Whistleblowers
The corporate veil is no longer sufficient to shield large businesses from taking responsibility for what individual directors and suppliers are up to – or from wearing the legal and reputational risks if something is wrong. Coleman Greig Lawyers will be hosting an exclusive C-Suite Workshop on the latest legislation covering anti-bribery, modern slavery, whistleblowers…
Mental Health and the Workplace
Increased awareness of mental illness in the community generally means employers need to have heightened awareness of the mental health issues at work. The chances of having an employee with a mental illness are high, and particularly so where the employee’s behaviour is non-compliant or unacceptable. Sensitivity to this, and factoring it into employment decisions…
Modern Slavery Legislation: Its Impact on Australian Businesses
This event has been postponed In the last 6 months both the NSW and Federal Parliaments have passed Modern Slavery legislation, imposing reporting requirements on businesses with turnover exceeding $50m (NSW) or $100m (Federal). While the direct obligation falls on companies with a turnover exceeding those thresholds, it is inevitable that those companies will make demands…
IR, Employment and a Federal Election: What’s up for grabs?
With a Federal election widely expected in May, and polls consistently suggesting a change of government, now is a good time to review current IR and employment law issues, and how a change of government might impact on employers. Join us at our first breakfast briefing for 2019 when our experienced employment lawyers Stephen Booth…
Behaving Badly in the Workplace
This highly practical and relevant workshop will look at how to handle unacceptable behaviour in the workplace; such as harassment, bullying, discrimination, aggression, swearing, insubordination, and the effects of drugs and alcohol. What will be covered? The session will cover: The areas of law which can be a risk for an employer where employees behave…
Contractor or Employee. That old chestnut
Is my contractor “really” an employee? How do I tell if a person is a contractor or an employee? This is one of the most vexed questions in employment law, but still a very important one, as a lot can hang on the answer: Might I owe leave entitlements? Have I underpaid relative to award…
