Principal Lawyer, Goleman Greig, Parramatta
Stephen Booth has been in practice for over 35 years and leads Coleman Greig’s Employment Law Team. He has significantly developed the firm’s practice in this area; advising and representing employer and employee clients across a wide range of areas including unfair dismissals, discrimination, legislative and award compliance – as well as workforce restructuring and redundancies.
Alongside his employment law practice, Stephen has particular expertise, and 35 years of experience, in legal issues surrounding intellectual disabilities. He has published articles in a range of professional journals, particularly concerning wills and trusts in the context of intellectual disability and mental illness, and has have also written on this subject for Lawyers Practice Manual (Thomson Reuters) – as well as a book, When I’m Gone; a plain English guide to will-making for parents of children with an intellectual disability. At the request of the Federal Government, in 2006 (when special disability Trusts were introduced) he wrote plain language guides to estate planning and special disability trusts for people with disabilities and their families (Planning for the Future - People with Disability and Special disability trusts: getting things sorted) and these are available on the Department of Human Services website:
https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/disability-and-carers/publications-articles/special-disability-trusts-getting-things-sorted
and
https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/disability-and-carers/publications-articles/general/planning-for-the-future-people-with-disability-booklet .
Stephen Booth has been in practice for over 35 years and leads Coleman Greig’s Employment Law Team. He has significantly developed the firm’s practice in this area; advising and representing employer and employee clients across a wide range of areas including unfair dismissals, discrimination, legislative and award compliance – as well as workforce restructuring and redundancies.
Alongside his employment law practice, Stephen has particular expertise, and 35 years of experience, in legal issues surrounding intellectual disabilities. He has published articles in a range of professional journals, particularly concerning wills and trusts in the context of intellectual disability and mental illness, and has have also written on this subject for Lawyers Practice Manual (Thomson Reuters) – as well as a book, When I’m Gone; a plain English guide to will-making for parents of children with an intellectual disability. At the request of the Federal Government, in 2006 (when special disability Trusts were introduced) he wrote plain language guides to estate planning and special disability trusts for people with disabilities and their families (Planning for the Future - People with Disability and Special disability trusts: getting things sorted) and these are available on the Department of Human Services website:
https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/disability-and-carers/publications-articles/special-disability-trusts-getting-things-sorted
and
https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/disability-and-carers/publications-articles/general/planning-for-the-future-people-with-disability-booklet .