Connect with meAtticus specialises in employment law and workplace health and safety law. Atticus has extensive experience in both a front-end advisory capacity for employees and employers, as well as acting for insurers and their insureds in litigation in state and federal courts and tribunals. Atticus’ back-end work includes advising and representing insurers and their insureds in workplace health and safety investigations and prosecutions.
Atticus is a thorough and dedicated lawyer with proven commercial acumen and a demonstrated ability to deliver timely, clear and pragmatic advice to best suit client needs. Given the inherent complexities of employment law and workplace health and safety law, Atticus understands the need to build strong relationships and strives to deliver the best outcomes for clients.
- Acting for a school in an unfair dismissal claim involving an employee whose alleged conduct affected both staff and students.
- Representing an educational institution in a workplace health and safety investigation following a notifiable incident.
- Acting for a national logistics company in litigated adverse action proceedings involving a contested interpretation of relevant modern award provisions.
- Representing an educational organisation in litigated discrimination proceedings brought against one of its schools.
- Acting for a PCBU in a SafeWork NSW investigation into a warehouse accident involving goods transporters that resulted in a subsequent prosecution where the PCBU had been acquired by new owners after the investigation, but prior to the prosecution.
- Acting for a PCBU in a SafeWork NSW prosecution following a fall from heights fatality in which the PCBU charged was not the principal contractor and was not substantively involved in the project at the time of the incident.
- Acting for a PCBU in a SafeWork NSW prosecution following an explosion on a worksite in which the PCBU was not the principal contractor and the ignition source was unknown.
- Acting for an individual in successfully mediated Federal Court proceedings in respect of a penalty issued by a key statutory authority.
- Inquiries, Investigations and Prosecutions
- Sexual Harassment, Bullying and Discrimination
- Unfair Dismissals and General Protections Claims
- Work Health and Safety
- Workplace Investigations
- Construction and Infrastructure
- Education
- Financial Institutions and Services
- Marine and Transport
- Professions and Business Services
- Public Sector
- Retail and Labour Hire
- Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Law Society of New South Wales