No Win No Fee Kiwi Employment Law

We are dedicated to providing employees and employers with ethical and honest employment law advocacy services. Your objectives are always at the forefront of our consideration. We work with you to develop strategic solutions that you are comfortable with and will give a great result.

Employment Rights

When you put your case in the hands of a representative, starting from the first phone call, the actions that are taken if not done in a careful and considered way can damage your case. We ensure that we protect your rights at every stage.

We have helped clients who have come to us who have dealt with other firms who unfortunately did not have their rights protected. Some examples include:

• Attempts to talk "without prejudice" to an employer before a dispute is established. The employer can later use what is disclosed in the conversation in court evidence.
• Previous correspondence and dealings with the employer being unconciliatory.
• Where a requisite level of dedication has not been provided. This is often due to commission rates.
• Where a competitor has been persuaded by an employer to act against the client. We have clients coming to us where this happens! This is thoroughly unacceptable and other firms do this and overlook good cases in doing so.
• Where a competitor spends more time at mediation talking about their fee's.
• Where a competitor has lost in the Authority and the client has come to us and has not been provided any documents by their advocate. As a result the client suffers in delay in time or being out of time to file an appeal in the Employment Court.

Questions you should ask

You should be making the following considerations:

• What are the strengths of the case and what is the likelihood of winning?
• How long will this process take?
• What are the fees, disbursements and other costs involved?
• What costs are liable if you don't win?
• What happens if our case gets appealed to the Employment Court? This is an excellent question, most of our competitors will drop you like a hot potato and their contract will not provide for what happens in terms of an Employment Court appeal. We consider the posibilities to the end.

Talk to us and on initial assessment we will confidently answer all of your questions up front.

What to watch out for

Key warning signs to watch out for include:

• The call-taker you speak to is not a Lawyer or Employment Law Advocate.
• The call-taker has no clear direction in the conversation held with you.
• The call-taker refers to advocates that they may assign your case too in this situation your time talking to that firm is a waste of time because you will need to repeat your story again to whomever your case is assigned.
• The call-taker will insist on telephoning your employer to get a quick settlement. If unable to achieve quick money, they will pass your case to a different person to continue your case.
• It is not clear in the conversation or following what the Terms of Engagement are in proceeding in your case.
• Beware of firms that will pay Employment Relations Authority filing fee's for you without charging for them. Such desperation is cause for suspicion.
• Beware of firms that will take your credit card details off you including the CVC number to pay for Employment Relations Authority filing fees.

You need to be very careful who you entrust to handle your case. We are experts in Employment Law Advocacy in New Zealand, we look forward to taking your case properly and strategically from the first initial phone call.