Charles Power
Partner, Holding Redlich
LLB, BEc (Hons) (Monash University)

Charles Power is the editor-in-chief of the Employment Law Practical Handbook. He is also the head of the employment law department of Holding Redlich and has practised in employment law and industrial relations since 1992.

Charles has a strong practice representing employers in all aspects of employment and industrial law and is accredited by the Law Institute of Victoria as a workplace relations specialist. He is a member of the advisery board to the Centre for Employment & Labour Relations Law, the University of Melbourne and the Australian Human Resources Institute.

Charles is a former associate to a Senior Deputy President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and a former senior adviser to a federal government minister.

Charles has Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degrees, both from Monash University. He was the joint winner of the Industrial Arbitration Prize in 1992.

Contact details for Holding Redlich
Tel: (03) 9321 9824
Fax (03) 9321 9900
Website: www.holdingredlich.com.au

Paul Hardman
Partner, Holding Redlich
Registered Migration Agent
BA, LLB (University of Queensland)

Paul is a partner of Holding Redlich’s Employment and Commercial Dispute Resolution department. He is a registered Migration Agent, specialising in business, investment and skilled migration.

Paul previously worked with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) in Canberra. He also acted for the DIAC in numerous Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Federal Court and High Court matters while he was a lawyer with 2 national law firms who were on DIAC’s panel of legal advisers.

Paul is a member of the Migration Institute of Australia (Executive Committee Member) and the Australian Institute of Administrative Law.

Stephen Trew
Partner, Holding Redlich
LLB (University of Auckland)
Master of Laws (University of Auckland)

Stephen is a member of Holding Redlich’s Commercial Dispute Resolution and Employment & Industrial Relations practice groups. He advises clients on a wide variety of employment issues, including confidentiality and restraint of trade issues, occupational health and safety and issues arising from the purchase, sale or transmission of businesses.

Stephen also acts for employers in both unfair dismissal claims and unfair contract claims held at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales. He also acts for employers in respect of complaints of unlawful discrimination, including in respect of issues concerning flexible work arrangements and disability discrimination. He also assists employers with WorkCover investigations and prosecutions.

Samantha Easton-Cavanagh
Principal Consultant, Balancing Business
BA, Bus (HR) (Monash)

In the course of her 20-year career, Samantha has gained invaluable experience and expertise across all facets of Human Resources to become a true senior generalist. Her experience has been grounded in fast-paced, complex, customer-service organisations requiring a collaborative, pragmatic, business focused approach.

Her love for Human Resources began whilst working in London, prompting her to return and complete a degree at Monash University. Samantha keeps up-to-date through her memberships at the Australian Institute of Management, Institute of Management Consultants and the Australian Human Resources Institute where she is a Certified Practitioner. Her affable personality and passion to make a difference has resulted in clients regularly recommending her to associates.

Angela Godfrey
Angela Godfrey and Associates, HR Consultants
Employee Relations Specialist, Ericsson Australia
BA (Hons) Politics,
Masters in HR Management

Angela is an experienced Human Resources professional with over 15 years experience. Angela has worked in both the public and private sectors in Australia and England. Her career spans diverse industries including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Television and Health.

Rima Newman
Partner, Logie-Smith Lanyon Lawyers

Rima is a partner in the law firm Logie-Smith Lanyon Lawyers, and practices in Employment and Industrial Relations. She specialises in employment litigation, unfair and unlawful dismissals, discrimination and equal opportunity, termination and disciplinary matters and occupational health and safety.

Rima is also a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute, the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria and the Workplace Relations Section of the Law Institute of Victoria.

Siobhan Mulcahy
Director, EMA Workplace Lawyers

Siobhan is a Director of Praxis Advisory Group and EMA Workplace Lawyers.
She has had 10 years experience in various roles in industrial relations, and her experience in the public and private sectors spans a wide range of industries including construction, maintenance, labour hire, contact centre, manufacturing, tertiary education, resources, health and the finance/ insurance sector. The focus of Siobhan’s work has been industrial relations, human resources and major project strategy & co-ordination.

Prior to joining EMA Workplace Lawyers, Siobhan was a Director of The Grey Group, and worked as a Senior Associate at DLA Phillips Fox, providing advice and assistance to a broad variety of clients on all aspects of employment and industrial law and running complex, multi-faceted litigation. This experience is complemented by her work in the employment and industrial law practices of two labour law firms and time spent as a National Industrial Officer for the national office of a trade union.

Henry Skene
Partner, Arnold Bloch Leibler
BA LLB (Hons)

Henry Skene is the head of Arnold Bloch Leibler’s workplace advisery practice
and has over 10 years’ experience in workplace relations. Henry specialises in workplace relations strategy, with particular emphasis on delivering value through workplace reform. His practice contemplates all aspects of workplace and employment law, including workplace change, enterprise bargaining, dispute resolution and workplace litigation. He has acted in many of the largest and most complex matters in this field. Henry has acted for major employers in workplace litigation in federal and State jurisdictions, and regularly appears before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

He is regularly identified as a leading lawyer in labour and employment law by international legal guides, including the 2008 Asialaw Leading Lawyers survey and the inaugural Australian edition of Best Lawyers International 2008.

Andrew Douglas LLB (Hons)
Graduate Diploma Corporations and Security Law
Managing Director, Douglas Workplace and Litigation Lawyers

Andrew is the Editor-in-chief of Portner Press’ OH&S Handbook and is the founder and Managing Director of Douglas Workplace and Litigation Lawyers.

Andrew acts for some of Australia’s largest companies and regularly appears in Tribunals and Commissions. He also publishes regular articles in a number of well known IR and OH&S magazines and websites.

Vicki Crowe
Managing Director, Cannon Recruitment

Vicki Crowe is Managing Director of Cannon Recruitment and Enneagram Australasia and has had 16 years experience in HR and Recruitment.

She has provided national and global organisations with a broad range of services including, full service Recruitment, HR Consulting, General Management services, Staff Training and Assessment and Behavioural Profiling.

Vicki has an accreditation in ‘Using the Enneagram in Psychological Assessment & Practice’ from John F Kennedy University in California, the only organisation globally to be accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA).

She combines her extensive HR background with her expertise and analysis of the profiling for training and assessment around the world.

Catherine Powell
B. Bus Human Resources (Deakin), Grad. Dip. Adult Education (UNE)
Principal, C Powell & Associates

Catherine has gained multi-faceted Human Resources experience over many years in both specialist and management roles. This experience has covered the implementation of complex change programs, restructuring programs, HR department start-ups, leadership assessment, staff training and development and policy implementation. Catherine works with senior executives and employees in transformational change activities, with the goal of sustainable change and increased personal capability.

Catherine has held roles as General Manager Human Resources, Talent and Capability Manager, and HR Manager of Emerging Businesses, as well as a range of HR Management roles in Learning and Development and other specialist areas within large organisations, such as PMP Limited, Coles and BHP.