This webinar will provide an overview of the eight draft Ethical Guidelines, highlight the reasons why the guidelines were developed and explain how they will sit with other professional ethical obligations and the forthcoming AAWI Best Practice Standards.
This webinar takes an in-depth look at key legal issues for workplace investigators who undertake inquiries into allegations of sexual harassment.
This webinar is intended for Australasian investigators.
This webinar focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on workplace investigations. Our panel of workplace investigators and in-house counsel will consider new practices that have been adopted by workplace investigators to assist the investigation process. Which of these practices should remain post the pandemic and why? Were there any practices that developed that should now be ditched? We will also consider how these adapted investigation practices were viewed by those who instruct workplace investigators. What was the experience of inhouse counsel with the investigation process during the pandemic? Did these new practices align with our client’s expectations? Were there any difficulties and how were they overcome? Our speakers will share and discuss investigation practices that were adapted or implemented during 2020 and consider whether any of these practices might continue as we emerge from the pandemic.
Our panelists have extensive experience undertaking and advising on reportable conduct investigations. This webinar will provide an overview of common issues and challenges associated with reportable conduct investigations from the perspectives of the Victorian regulator (Commission for Children and Young People), a lawyer and an investigator. Each panelist will offer practical guidance for those conducting reportable conduct investigations involving children and expert insight into the complexities of this unique area.
The session will cover topical developments illustrated by caselaw including the implications of the requirement for registration either as a private investigator or a lawyer; whether new rules of conduct for lawyers apply to their conduct of workplace investigations; a change to the standard of proof test for misconduct in cases which may result in personal grievances; and the prudence of liability disclaimers.
Judge Corkill will provide a view from the bench about workplace investigations. He will give some insight into the issues that may arise out of investigation processes and reports, and the steps that investigators may wish to take in order to address them.
The New Zealand Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care has the largest scope of any similar international inquiry. The Inquiry is considering a range of faith based and state institution settings and a range of themes over a 50 year time period, including the experience of the disabled, Pacific Islanders and Māori in care. Estimates are that 250,000 children may have been abused in care in this time period. Now mid-way through the life of the Inquiry, there have been many lessons learned as to how to scope and conduct an historical investigation in an inclusive, trauma informed manner and the resources that are likely to be required.
