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Start with the Health & Safety Forum: Compliance, Enforcement and Liabilities, where an expert panel will guide you through your workplace legal rights and obligations. Learn how to conduct effective incident investigations, manage work-related psychological health and safety, and master courtroom skills.
Next, dive into the Workplace Internal Investigations Intensive. Explore the full investigation process, from complaint triage to post-investigation management. Gain invaluable knowledge to ensure your investigations meet the highest standards of procedural fairness, reducing legal risks and strengthening the credibility of your findings.
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Health & Safety Forum: Compliance, Enforcement and Liabilities
Navigate the ins and outs of Health & Safety law. An expert panel will help you put your knowledge to work, providing practical guidance on your legal rights and obligations in the workplace. Learn how to run an effective incident investigation, master the courtroom, and how to support and manage work-related psychological health and safety. Plus, receive valuable summaries of recent Health & Safety cases and their key takeaways.
- Investigations
- Notices
- Court orders
- Prosecutions
- Enforceable undertakings
- Proceeds of Crime: The Salters case
Presented by DeAnne Brabant, Partner, Shieff Angland
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John Rooney, Partner, Simpson Grierson
- WorkSafe NZ v Safe Business Solutions Ltd and other cases involving advisors prosecuted under s 36(2) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA)
- Insights for education lawyers on how to assist schools in managing health and safety risks outside the classroom: WorkSafe New Zealand v Whangārei Boys High School Board of Trustees
- What does “a PCBU who manages or controls” mean for purposes of s 37(1) of HSWA: Whakaari Management Limited v WorkSafe New Zealand
- First prosecution of a CEO in New Zealand as an officer: Maritime New Zealand v Gibson
- Latest policy updates
Presented by Sanja Marin, Senior Associate, Duncan Cotterill
- An overview of mental health and wellbeing obligations in the workplace
- Unpacking common psychological risks, including bullying, harassment, stress, and fatigue
- Practical legal tips to manage conflict in the workplace where bullying allegations have arisen
Presented by Myriam Mitchell, Partner, Copeland Ashcroft
- Catch up on some of the key Health and Safety cases of 2024
- Gain best practice guidance on compliance and enforcement actions
- Gain perspectives into the current standing of the health and safety system in NZ
- Learn useful tips to support work-related psychological health and safety
Presenters
Sanja Marin, Senior Associate, Duncan CotterillSanja is a specialist health and safety lawyer with significant experience across New Zealand and Australian jurisdictions. She previously worked as a prosecutor for WorkSafe New Zealand and the New South Wales health and safety regulator in Australia. She has also worked as a senior legal advisor for WorkSafe providing legal advice on commercial, operational, regulatory, legislative, public law, and criminal law matters. Sanja provides legal advice in all areas of health and safety. She provides proactive advice, training, incident investigations support, and representation in court.
Myriam Mitchell, Partner, Copeland Ashcroft
Myriam has worked in employment, health and safety, insurance law, and dispute resolution since 2007. Myriam graduated with honours from the University of Auckland. In addition to her law degree, she also holds a commerce degree (majoring in management and employment relations). Her significant litigation experience means she has strong advocacy and negotiation skills and has guided many clients to a negotiated settlement where avoiding a hearing was in their best interest. Myriam has appeared in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, District and High Courts. Myriam has been appointed to The Law Association Health and Safety Law Committee and regularly delivers training and seminars on topical employment and health and safety issues. She is based in Hawke’s Bay and travels throughout New Zealand.
John Rooney, Partner, Simpson Grierson
John has extensive experience in health and safety and in advising clients on options for managing their workplace obligations and improving their performance in this business-critical area. John's experience includes incident response management, defending prosecutions laid by WorkSafe, advising on investigation processes for complex situations including for alliances with international parties, as well as governance advice, reviews of health and safety systems, and delivering training. John regularly attends mediations and appears in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, and in the District Court as defence counsel on WorkSafe prosecutions. He is a member of the Auckland District Law Society Health & Safety Committee, and the New Zealand Institute of Safety Management.
DeAnne Brabant, Partner, Shieff Angland
DeAnne is an experienced litigation lawyer who is responsible for the employment team at Shieff Angland. Prior to that, DeAnne was a barrister for a mid-sized law firm and also worked for the IRD and Worksafe, appearing as counsel in both criminal prosecutions and civil cases. DeAnne's experience includes appearances in various jurisdictions including the Family Court, Employment Court, District Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. In addition, DeAnne is skilled in investigating complaints and employment matters, mediation, crisis management, conducting investigations, advising on policy, regulatory practice, corporate governance and leadership.
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Workplace Internal Investigations Intensive
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a high-level step-by-step guide and comprehensive insights into undertaking Workplace Investigations from a leading authority on workplace internal investigations. You will take a deep dive into the entire investigation process, from initial complaint triage to post-investigation management. This knowledge is invaluable for ensuring your workplace investigations are conducted with the highest standards of procedural fairness, reducing the risk of legal challenges and enhancing the credibility of your findings. An Intensive not to be missed.
Your Workshop Facilitator will be Jason Clark, Director & Co-Owner, Worklogic; Co-author Workplace Investigations 4th Edition, Wolters Kluwer
- Complaint Triage
- When is a complaint actually an allegation
- Deciding whether you need to investigate or take a different approach
- Legal Principles When Conducting Workplace Investigations
- What is procedural fairness?
- Hallmarks of a procedurally fair process
- What puts procedural fairness at risk
- Draft Allegations
- Understanding the minimum requirements for a procedurally fair allegation
- Weighing Evidence
- What is evidence and what is relevant and necessary to make findings
- Making findings in they said / they said scenarios
- How to assess the credibility of evidence
- How to proceed when it is a voice against another?
- How to proceed if the respondent makes a bullying/discrimination complaint against the complainant?
- Common Pitfalls in Workplace Investigations and How to Avoid Them
- Managing the Post Investigation Space
- Findings are made, the respondent is retained, what next?
Presented by Jason Clark, Director & Co-Owner, Worklogic; Co-author Workplace Investigations 4th Edition, Wolters Kluwer
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- Gain a high level step by step guide on undertaking workplace investigations
- Recognise when an investigation is appropriate and what other options might be more suitable
- How to investigate with procedural fairness
- Understand what evidence is relevant during the investigation and how to assess the credibility of the evidence
- Get valuable insights from leading author on common pitfalls in conducting workplace investigations and what to avoid
Presenters
Jason Clark, Director & Co-Owner, WorklogicJason Clark specialises in managing workplace misconduct and psychosocial risk, relying on over 30 years of experience working as both a people manager and workplace investigator in the military, government, industrial, and corporate sectors. Jason is passionate about assisting workplaces develop strategies to foster a positive and safe workplace culture. Jason is also a co-author of Workplace Investigations (4th Edition), the definitive guide to conducting workplace investigations, published by Wolters Kluwer in 2020 and 2024, and is sought after to speak on a range of topics about managing employee behaviour and resolving workplace dysfunction, around Australia and overseas. Jason leads the Sydney office and is the national co-director of Worklogic with Jodie Fox.
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Employment Law Forum
Navigate the 5Ws of workplace investigations: When, Where, Who, Why and How. Examine the legal requirements for dealing with workplace whistleblowers and protected disclosures, and the security measures an employer can take to protect their confidential information and intellectual property. It’s workplace law compliance made easy with practical guidance on privacy, latest case updates, plus strategies to mitigate difficult situations, such as allegations of bullying during the performance management process.
- Case law developments over the past 12 months
- Leading employment decisions
- Cases of interest for hearing in 2025
Presented by Tim Clarke, Barrister, Richmond Chambers
- Understanding requirements: employers’ obligations and good faith
- Simplifying performance management: informal versus formal performance processes
- Strategies for dealing with difficult situations, including allegations of bullying that may arise during the performance management process
Presented by Nikita Bartlett, Associate, Duncan Cotterill
- Investigations, the when, where, how, who and why?
- Employment issues
- Confidentiality and privacy constraints
- Investigation findings, and what next
- Case law examples
Presented by Andrew Scott-Howman, Barrister/Workplace Investigator, Port Nicholson Chambers, and co-author of the Thomson Reuters text “Workplace Bullying in New Zealand”
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Jennifer Mills, Director – Head of Practice, Jennifer Mills & Associates; ‘Leading Individual’, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
- What is needed in an employment agreement?
- Security measures an employer can take during the employment relationship
- If the employment relationship ends, how can the employer enforce its protections?
Presented by Kathryn Dalziel, Barrister, Walker Street Chambers, Employment Law
- An employer’s obligations as a receiver of a protected disclosure, including dealing with the protections which disclosers are entitled to
- Getting the policy documents and procedures right, with practical guidance and tips for dealing with disclosures
- Distinguishing between protected disclosures versus other complaints or concerns
- Privacy concerns and implications under the Privacy Act 2020
Presented by June Hardacre, Partner and Bonnie Simmonds, Senior Solicitor, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
- Receive updates on the cases shaping employment law
- Understand best legal practices for dealing with difficult situations in the workplace
- Gain practical tips on navigating staff disciplinary action, performance management and workplace investigations
- Gain practical guidance on protecting workplace confidential information and IP
Presenters
Jennifer Mills, Director – Head of Practice, Jennifer Mills & AssociatesJennifer Mills is one of New Zealand's leading employment and health and safety lawyers, with extensive experience in employment litigation, industrial relations, health and safety, complex restructures, large-scale Holidays Act issues, executive remuneration and regulation, executive exits, and immigration. Jennifer advises clients on all employment-related matters including drafting employment agreements and HR policies, managing poor performance, restructuring and redundancy, disciplinary investigations, and dismissals, leave entitlements and secondments. She also advises on fixed term employment arrangements, independent contractor arrangements, KiwiSaver and superannuation, collective bargaining, establishing businesses in New Zealand, recruiting employees, and restraints of trade and other post termination obligations. She has been listed as a 'leading individual' in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 directory, a ‘market leader’ in the Chambers Asia Pacific directory and is rated one of the leading employment lawyers in the world, by Chambers Global.
Tim Clarke, Barrister, Richmond Chambers
Tim Clarke is an experienced litigator with a specialist focus on employment and workplace safety law. His practice spans advocacy in the courts of general jurisdiction (including appellate courts), the Employment Court and Employment Relations Authority, Human Rights Review Tribunal, mediation, and workplace investigations. Tim accepts instructions to act as counsel, mediator in relation to employment disputes, or to conduct independent workplace investigations. Tim is an Associate Member of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ) and the Resolution Institute. He is also a member of the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI). He has been a member of the Health and Safety Committee of The Law Association (formerly ADLS) from 2016 to the present and is a member of the Employment Law and Privacy Committee of the New Zealand Bar Association.
Kathryn Dalziel, Barrister, Walker Street Chambers
Kathryn is a senior barrister at Walker Street Chambers practising in employment and privacy law as well as civil litigation and professional ethics. Kathryn researches and teaches in Employment Law and Legal Ethics for the University of Canterbury School of Law and regularly presents at conferences and seminars in privacy, employment, and legal ethics. Kathryn is a member of the Employment Law Bulletin editorial committee. She has co-authored the chapters on Employment Law and Health Information in Health Care and the Law (5th ed), co-authored Ethics, Professional Responsibility and the Lawyer (3rd Ed), and authored the Privacy Law Chapter in Human Rights Law – Westlaw NZ (online).
June Hardacre, Partner, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
June is an employment specialist who regularly advises both private and public sector clients on all aspects of New Zealand Employment law. Her practice includes advising on health and safety, remuneration and incentives, data protection, and employee privacy matters. June provides accessible and commercially sound advice to her clients and achieves outcomes for clients that do not compromise values. She has applied this approach during negotiations with unions on collective bargaining and industrial disputes, and while advising on conduct, bullying, and harassment investigations for a range of major New Zealand organisations.
Nikita Bartlett, Associate, Duncan Cotterill
Nikita is an Associate in the Employment team at Duncan Cotterill assisting a wide range of clients at all stages of employment matters. Her expertise ranges from providing advice on personal grievances, bullying and harassment, restructuring and redundancies, disciplinary procedures, performance management, medical incapacity, advising on a variety of agreements and conducting sensitive workplace investigations. She also has experience with acting for and assisting with defending clients in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court.
Andrew Scott-Howman, Barrister/Workplace Investigator, Port Nicholson Chambers
Andrew Scott-Howman is a Wellington based barrister specialising in workplace investigations. He is a graduate of the Association of Workplace Investigator's Training Institute and a member of that specialist interest organisation. He is also a co-author of the Thomson Reuters text "Workplace Bullying in New Zealand". He acts as investigator in both the public and private sectors, and has wide experience in investigating bullying, sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct claims.
Bonnie Simmonds, Senior Solicitor, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Bonnie is a Senior Solicitor in the employment team. Bonnie acts for clients on both advisory and contentious matters. She regularly assists clients to resolve complex workplace disputes by utilising technical proficiency and pragmatic thinking. She has experience working on a broad range of employment-related matters, including personal grievances, health and safety, the Holidays Act 2003, union bargaining and industrial disputes, restructures, and employment status disputes.
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