The Law Handbook 2024

Index 1221 ‘best interests’ no longer determinant 851 medical decisions 856 conditions for making order 852–3 conflict of interest 854 consent to medical treatment 855, 868–9 contacts 859 decision-making capacity 785, 787, 788, 853 definition 853 lack of 852, 853 person needing support to exercise 853 disability advocacy 797 disability, definition 785, 852 financial matters 855 guardian 851, 854, 855 application for appointment 851 appointment by VCAT 797, 851 conflict of interest 854 eligibility for appointment 854 medical decisions 858, 868–9 personal matters, powers in 855 powers and duties 855 Public Advocate 852, 854 suitability 854 supportive guardian 789, 851, 856 who can be appointed 854 Guardianship and Administration Act 2019 (Vic) 851 guardianship order 797, 851 health care 855 health records, authorised representative for 855 hearings 852 investigation by VCAT 852 joint administrators 854 joint guardians 854 least restrictive means 852, 853 medical treatment decision-makers 858–9 need, determining 853 Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) 797, 852, 859 advice and education 798 investigations by 797 seeking help from 855 personal matters 855 person’s will and preferences 853 powers and duties 855 practicable and appropriate support 853 principles for making order 853 professional advocate 852 promoting personal and social wellbeing 853 Public Advocate 852, 854 medical decisions 858, 868 represented person 851 resources 859 supportive guardian or administrator 789, 851, 856 appointment by VCAT 789, 851, 856 powers and duties 856 urgent orders 854 VCAT 23, 851 application to 851–2 dispute resolution 857 guardian seeking advice from 855 Guardianship List 797, 851 hearing of application 852 orders 789, 797, 851, 854, 856 safeguarding role 853 will, administrator reading 855 guilty plea admissions in police interview 181 self-representation 84–5 sentence discount for 31 sentence indication 31 summary jurisdiction 84 guilty without conviction 240 H habeas corpus, writ of 185 Hamilton: Rural Financial Counselling Service 394 hand-up brief procedure 216, 218 handwriting samples 191 harassment consumers 702 internet 742 sexual see sexual harassment Headspace, National Youth Mental Health Foundation 305 Health Care Card 334–5 Health Complaints Commissioner 730, 799, 849, 876–8 Advisory Council 878 appeal from order of 878 Complaint Data Reviews 878 complaints handling standards 878 complaints to 730, 841, 849, 876–7, 1122 declining to investigate 1122 investigation 877, 1122 procedure 877 referral to Information Commissioner 1123 compliance notices 1122 contact details 730, 800, 802, 850, 879, 1124 disability related complaints 797, 799–800 functions 730, 876 general health warning statements 878 health privacy guidelines 1122 human rights obligations 850 mental health issues 849–50 prisoner complaints 237 privacy complaints 800, 1118, 1122, 1124 public health warning statements 878 website 730, 800, 802, 850, 879, 1124 health practitioners see also health services Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency 730, 841, 876, 878 complaints about 730, 841, 876–8 criminal conviction and employment as 248 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 878 National Registration and Accreditation Scheme 878 registration boards 878 Health Privacy Principles 871, 1120–2 application 1120 complaints of breach 1122 referral to Information Commissioner 1123 exemptions 1121 summary of 1120–1 health records access to 871, 1120 electronic records 1110 guardian as authorised representative for 855 Health Privacy Principles 871, 1120–2 healthcare identifiers 1110, 1121, 1125 My Health Record system 1110, 1111 privacy 871, 1110–1, 1120–3 sensitive information 1098 health services see also medical treatment access to medical records 871 Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency 730, 841, 876, 878 blood donation/transfusion 873–4 code of conduct 878 complaint bodies 730, 876–8 complaints 841, 876–8 Complaints Commissioner see Health Complaints Commissioner Complaints Data Reviews 878 complaints handling standards 878 confidentiality 871–3 consent to treatment see consent to treatment definition 877 disability discrimination 782 equality of access 782 Health Complaints Commissioner 730 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 878 healthcare identifiers 1110, 1121, 1125 information privacy see privacy information to patients 869–70 National Registration and Accreditation Scheme 878 prisoners 226 complaints about 237 privacy 871–3 healthcare identifiers 1110–1, 1121, 1125 Healthcare Identifiers Service 1110, 1125 hearing impaired people National Relay Service 63 Victorian legal aid services 63 HELP (HECS) debts bankruptcy, effect 378 non-provable debt 374, 378 tax liability 396 High Court of Australia 4, 13, 22 appeal to 22, 263 binding decisions 22 Chief Justice 4 contact details 29 family law appeal 263 interpretation of Constitution 5 resolving inconsistencies in Commonwealth and state laws 2, 5 taxation appeals 404 website 11, 22, 29 Higher Education Loan System see HELP (HECS) debts HIV/AIDS information privacy 873 holiday homes 467 Home Affairs see Department of Home Affairs home detention order (HDO) abolition in Victoria 32 home invasion aggravated, young offender 39 DNA sample offence 187