Profile
Holly specialises in health, employment and privacy law. Her health expertise includes advising on treatment and consent issues, mental health, health information privacy, adverse events and health related litigation such as coronial investigations and judicial review.
Holly also has a wide range of employment experience, including advising on dismissal, redundancy, performance management and bullying as well as advising on health and safety issues and incident response.
Holly has experience as an independent employment investigator and has special expertise in privacy and Official Information issues as well as human rights law. Holly regularly provides training and seminars on health, employment and privacy topics.
Holly was a contributing author in New Zealand's first Elder Law text book and in the Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa project.
- Convenor of the New Zealand Law Society Health Law Committee
- LLM Global Health Law (with distinction) - Georgetown Law, USA
- New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholar
Experience
Work highlights
Acting as in-house counsel for several large District Health Boards
providing a full range of advice on health, privacy, employment and other legal issues that arise within the DHB and health sector environment
Advising employers and others on COVID-19 implications
addressing the complex employment, human rights, privacy and health and safety issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, including advice about mandatory vaccination and testing within workforces
Acting as an independent investigator
including in investigations into bullying, sexual harassment and other employment and governance matters
Advising on human rights implications and necessary steps for employers implementing 'affirmative action' policies
Implementing the Privacy Act 2020 and assisting clients responding to breaches
providing advice, training and guidance on the Privacy Act 2020 and assisting clients with the management of significant privacy breaches
Representing District Health Boards and individual practitioners in Coronial Inquests
including in various high profile and complex Inquests dealing with issues of suicide, family violence, abuse and addiction