Senior Associate, Christchurch
Shaun Brookes
Contact
- Christchurch office
- DDI +64 3 371 3562
- M +64 22 612 5600
Profile
Shaun specialises in employment law, industrial relations, and health and safety, as well as dispute resolution and general litigation.
He advises clients on a wide range of employment matters, including terminations, bullying, redundancy and restructuring, Holiday Act entitlements, and industrial relations. He regularly provides training and seminars on health and safety, employment, and privacy topics.
Shaun also represents a number of councils on regulatory enforcement and prosecutions. He advises clients on health and safety matters and has experience with WorkSafe investigations and prosecutions.
He is an experienced litigator and appears in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court, the District Court and High Court, and at mediation on behalf of clients.
- Pegasus Scholarship recipient
- Captain in the New Zealand Army territorial force
Work highlights
Acting for Alliance Group
in a claim made by the New Zealand Meat Workers Union for an additional weeks' annual holiday based on the interpretation of successive collective agreements (New Zealand Meatworkers & Related Trades Union Incorporated v Alliance Group Limited)
Acting for Alliance Group
in a claim by a seasonal Meat Worker that he had been unjustifiably dismissed and disadvantaged by not being re-engaged by the company for the new season (Butterfield v Alliance Group Limited)
Prosecuting various dog owners
following attacks on people and other animals (Christchurch City Council v Howard; Hurunui District Council v Graham; Hurunui District Council v Roberts)
Acting for clients
in the Employment Relations Authority, the Employment Court, Court of Appeal and at mediations
Advising and training clients
on health and safety matters, including assisting clients to manage and respond to serious accidents and subsequent WorkSafe investigations and prosecutions
Prosecuting regulatory offences
on behalf of territorial authorities, including breaches of the Resource Management Act 1991, Building Act 2004, Land Transport Act 1998, and Dog Control Act 1996
Alternate contacts
Susan Rowe
Partner, Christchurch
Susan specialises in litigation, local government, insurance, industrial relations and health and safety. Susan currently advises…
- DDI +64 3 371 3517
- M +64 27 537 7784
Peter Chemis
Partner, Wellington
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- DDI +64 4 498 7339
- M +64 27 444 6619