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What employment advocates actually do for employees and employers in mediation, ERA investigations and Employment Court litigation, including case assessment, evidence, negotiation and representation.

How no-win-no-fee employment advocacy works in practice: what counts as success, success fees, disbursements, settlement choices and the clauses clients should examine before signing.

Mr Menzies sought to challenge an ERA compliance outcome arising from remedies originally ordered against a company that later entered liquidation. The background raised disputed accounting, disclosure, separate-legal-personality and recovery issues, but the challenge itself was filed substantially out of time.

A record-based response to commentary about Joyce v Ultimate Siteworks, Menzies v Corrigan and employment advocates, separating what the judgments actually decided from disputed characterisations and matters that remain unresolved.

This article examines how disputed accounting material in Menzies v Corrigan moved from a liquidator's reference to 'excessive drawings' into evidence used in proceedings seeking personal compliance orders against a company director. It also traces later disclosure issues involving material routed through Catherine Stewart Barrister's office.

A critique of the Employers and Manufacturers Association case for new regulation of employment advocates, focusing on whether the publicly identified evidence demonstrates widespread advocate-specific consumer harm.

Employment Court procedural failures are sometimes attributed to non-lawyer advocates, but this article examines reported examples showing that competence and compliance problems can also arise with lawyers and represented parties.

A drafting problem in a mediated s 149 settlement where clauses about when agreement became binding did not align with a separate requirement for mediator sign-off, creating an avoidable enforcement dispute.