Richard McCullagh is a legal practitioner, author and teacher.
Richard has practised in the law relating to retirement villages since 1985 for operators, big and small, in-house and externally and for residents, his current focus, moving into retirement villages and aged care facilities.
Richard is the author of ‘Retirement Village Law in NSW’ published by Thomson Reuters, 2013, which includes a chapter on residential aged care facilities.
Richard has written articles and presented on topics relating to elder law in general, including retirement villages, residential aged care facilities, granny flats and enduring powers of attorney.
Richard is a sole practitioner on the Central Coast of NSW and an adjunct lecturer in Elder Law at the College of Law, Sydney.
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Tertiary degrees
- LLB: Macquarie University 1979-1984
- BA: Macquarie University 1979 – 1981
- BA: Newcastle University 1989 – 1994 (part-time)
Legal practice, all involving exclusively or predominantly law to retirement villages
- In-house
- Wilde Property Group 1985 – 2005
- Babcock & Brown / Prime Life / Lend Lease 2005 – 2010
- Private practice
- Minter Ellison, Sydney 2010
- Gadens Lawyers, Sydney 2011
- Sole practice 2012
- Patrick McHugh & Co Pty Ltd, Kincumber 2013 to date
Publications
- ‘Retirement Villages Law in NSW’, published by Thomson Reuters 2013
- ‘Changes to retirement villages law’, Law Society Journal, August 2013, Vol 51 No. 7, pages 69-71
- ‘Resident-friendly law changes afoot’, Australian Financial Review, 28-29 September 2013
- ‘Care in Australian retirement villages’, (2014) 8 Elder Law Review
- ‘Elder Law’, editor of Chapter 20 in the Lawyers Practice Manual, published by Thomson Reuters 2014
- ‘Aged care reforms from a resident’s perspective’, Law Society Journal, September 2014
- ‘Untangling the web of granny flat arrangements’, Law Society Journal, November 2015
Mandatory continuing legal education presentations to lawyers on retirement village law, aged care law, enduring powers of attorney and ‘granny flat’ arrangements, since 2012 and continuing
2013 to date, Adjunct lecturer in Elder Law, Masters of Applied Laws, Wills & Estates Faculty, College of Law, Sydney