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ERA settlements and s 150A "Payment on resolution of problem": paying advocates directly and GST Invoices

How s 150A treats payments made on resolution of an employment problem, including settlements where the employer separately pays an employee's advocate against a defined GST invoice.

Matched passage: ... assisting in writing witness statements and managing documents, writing submissions and investigation meeting attendance, the fee could rationally be $12,000 plus GST. That is a figure of $13,800 inclusive of GST. If the advocate's employee client was awarded a total of ...
"No win, no fee" for employers: when it exists and what to do instead

Why no-win-no-fee representation is rarely available to employers defending a personal grievance, and the alternative ways an employer can control legal or advocacy spend.

Matched passage: Use mediation properly: a well-prepared mediation can resolve matters without the cost of an ERA investigation meeting.
Employment lawyer fees: avoiding unreasonable costs when defending a personal grievance

Employer-side guidance on controlling representation costs in a personal-grievance defence and understanding the gap between a lawyer's invoice and the costs normally recoverable in the ERA.

Matched passage: Ask for numbers early: get a clear estimate for each stage (responses, mediation, witness statements, investigation meeting).
Employer ERA costs: when an employer can claim costs after winning

What an employer can realistically recover in ERA costs after successfully defending a claim, including the daily-tariff starting point and the circumstances that can increase or reduce an award.

Matched passage: The uplift on top of the daily tariff was an extra $2,000 on the basis of rejection of a Calderbank offer and the investigation meeting going over time for the first day.
Employment Court procedure: competence problems are not confined to advocates

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.

Matched passage: My position was, and remains, that there were legitimate questions about the provenance and completeness of material passing through the opposing representatives' office and that seeking discovery to investigate those matters was properly arguable.

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