Monday, 1 September 2025
Evidence in the ERA
- Key differences between how the Authority and Courts treat evidence: getting the most relevant information before the Authority
- How to deal with documents and other evidence
- Witness statements: Statutory Justification Test
- 'Not bound by the rules of evidence': the practical implications
- Procedural fairness and natural justice at ERA: the evidentiary implications
- Collecting evidence related to the desired solutions and presenting counter arguments
- How should one respond when other parties persistently append new facts and claims to their assertions?
Presented by Geoff Davenport, Barrister, Capital Chambers
*Original Content was created in September 2024
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
Chair
Alan Knowsley, Consultant, Rainey Collins Lawyers
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how the ERA evaluates and manages evidence differently than the courts
- Learn best practices for gathering, presenting, and responding to evidence in employment matters
Presenters
Geoff Davenport, Barrister, Capital ChambersGeoff Davenport has been a specialist employment lawyer for over 26 years. He has worked in New Zealand and overseas, including for the United Nations. He has a Masters Degree in Law, focusing on issues of good faith. He acts for public and private sector employers, unions and employees throughout the country, and commenced at the Bar in May 2019.
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.
