Monday, 1 September 2025
*Original Content was created in September 2024
Chair
Alan Knowsley, Consultant, Rainey Collins Lawyers
Mediation, Case Management Conferences and the Investigation Meeting
- Mediation strategies and tactics
- Employment Relations Authority: pleadings and procedural considerations
- Considerations and tips for investigation meetings
- Costs
Presented by John Farrow, Partner, Anderson Lloyd
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Learning Objectives:
- Learn strategic approaches for ERA mediation, case management conferences, and investigation meetings
- Understand key procedural and cost considerations in employment disputes
Presenters
John Farrow, Partner, Anderson LloydJohn Farrow is a Partner co-leading Anderson Lloyd's national employment team. He specialises in Employment and Health & Safety law. John's expertise covers the full range of employment matters, including those which involve criminal and civil aspects. John has represented employees, senior executives, small to medium businesses, councils, local authorities, and corporates. He is a LEADR-accredited Mediator, Member of the Institute of Directors and is an 'Association of Workplace Investigators' Certificate-holder. John is named in the 'Best Lawyers in New Zealand' publication, Labour and Employment Law category, and as a 'next generation partner' in the Legal 500.
Alan Knowsley, Consultant, Rainey Collins Lawyers
Alan is a Consultant of the firm and practises in the litigation and dispute resolution areas with particular emphasis on employment, privacy, construction, education, health, insurance and charities. Alan has many years experience in employment law, representing employers and employees and advising on how to get the best possible outcome. He can assist you with getting your employment agreements fully compliant with the law as well as with personal grievance claims, mediations and Employment Relations Authority hearings. Alan has extensive experience representing professionals in the health field in all of the various courts and tribunals. He is Past President of the New Zealand Chapter of the Australia New Zealand Education Law Association, Past President of the Employment Law Institute (2009-2013) and also advises the New Zealand School Trustees Association. He has advised disciplinary bodies on how to handle hearings and wrote the chapter on the disciplinary process for Cole's Medical Practice in New Zealand as well as numerous articles for other publications, including 5 years doing a weekly Legal Issues syndicated in newspapers around the country plus radio talk back shows on employment law. Alan is the legal adviser to the New Zealand Lions organisation.
