Presenters

Mark Lawlor, Partner, Duncan Cotterill
Mark is an experienced employment law practitioner with many years’ experience in employment law, workplace disputes and health and safety. He provides strategic advice to employers, senior executives and human resource managers on complex and sometimes sensitive employment laws issues. Mark has extensive experience as an advocate in personal grievance claims, conducting private negotiations on behalf of employers, and appearing before the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court. Mark advises some of New Zealand’s leading organisations and iconic brands on all aspects of their employment law needs. While many of his clients are global operations that do business in New Zealand and Australia, Mark also works closely with several not-for-profit organisations on their full suite of workplace issues. He has strong relationships with a number of Australian firms and works closely with them to ensure mutual clients receive practical and commercial advice across their trans-Tasman operations. Throughout his practice Mark has developed a base of knowledge across a number of industry sectors including security, air transport, IT, manufacturing, FMCG, retail and fitness/recreation.

Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts, PhD, PGCLT, LLM (Distinction), LLB(Hons), BA (Hons). Associate Professor in Law, Research Convenor and former Co-Director Waikato Public Law and Policy Research Unit
Juliet is a specialist in charity law, equity and trusts, and religious law. Juliet’s recent contributions to the literature includes the monographs "The Law of Religion in New Zealand" and the 2nd edition of the "Law of Charity" (with a 3rd edition on its way), and the OUP article "Advocating for the environment, charity law and Greenpeace: A New Zealand perspective". Juliet has authored 4 other books, several book chapters, numerous journal articles, as well as giving radio interviews and podcasts, and producing a number of commissioned reports.