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\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n
In a rare step, the Employment Court has ordered an employment advocate to personally pay costs after his conduct was found “entirely unacceptable”.<\/p>\n
Lawrence Anderson – who is not a lawyer – made comments such as “the lawyers who work in the employment law jurisdiction are incapable of dealing with matters that require the use of the human brain.”<\/p>\n
He also attacked the Employers & Manufacturers Association and the New Zealand Bar Association in an email, saying they should “pull their finger out of their arses” and calling them “idiots.”<\/p>\n
Catherine Stewart, convenor of the Employment Law Committee\u00a0at The Law Association of New Zealand, brought the application against Anderson.<\/p>\n
She says this case is a line-in-the-sand moment that underlines the urgent need to close the loophole in the Employment Relations Act which allows unregulated advocates to operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: 123RF In a rare step, the Employment Court has ordered an employment advocate to personally pay costs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[943,28,3011,134,3,2294,3010,3008,3009],"class_list":["post-141908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-audio","tag-business","tag-current-affairs","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}