Mount Evelyn
Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
Community voices budget pleas
Ageing services set to transition come July
Powerful, healing exhibition launches
See Real Estate liftout inside
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Friends across generations The benefits springing from an intergenerational program in Mooroolbark are undeniable. Big Little Buddies brings together preschool aged children and aged care residents once a week for activities, music and fun, seeing smiles abound, infectious laughter and unlikely friendships. It has inspired so many that founder Monique Waterhouse and her team were recognised by the People of Post grants program, supporting the charity to make the program the best it can be. To read more about the work Big Little Buddies is doing, turn to page 14
Mooroolbark’s Big Little Buddies program connects young people with aged care residents. 410409 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
Lawyer is barred By Callum Ludwig The principal/director of Yarra Ranges Lawyers, Kristy Burrows, is barred from practising for two years following a ruling from VCAT. Brought to the tribunal by the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner (VLSC), Ms Burrows was initially charged with knowingly creating, or directing a junior lawyer under her to create, a false document, knowingly directing
a junior lawyer to send a false document to the State Revenue Office (SRO), failing to provide adequate advice to a client regarding stamp duty exemptions and acting for both parties in a real estate transaction with a related loan agreement without advising the parties about the conflict of interest and obtaining their informed consent. A statement from Yarra Ranges Ranges Lawyers on behalf of Ms Burrows said always acted
with her client’s best interests in mind and at heart, Ms Burrows made an error of judgement in late 2018 in relation to the process in which she submitted a document and as a result, has had her practising certificate cancelled for two years. “As a person who has always navigated the legal system with the utmost integrity, diligence, and care on behalf of her clients and with the law and due process centred firmly
in her practice, she is deeply affected by her mistake and its outcome,” it reads. “Yarra Ranges Lawyers will remain focused on representing clients and seeking the best possible outcome every time. Reassuringly, the practice will be guided by experienced lawyer Chantel Graham who has stepped into the role of principal lawyer,” Continued page 3
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