Emergency & Essential Services
Expert Emergency Services Lawyers
Newcastle-based emergency services lawyers Cardillo Gray Partners provide expert legal advice and representation for frontline staff in the emergency and essential services sectors. We have acted successfully on behalf of police officers at both a state and federal level, paramedics, patient transport officers, firefighters, and rural firefighters across a range of issues.
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By their very nature, emergency and essential services workers are critical to the health, safety, and welfare of the community. As frontline responders, they experience the best and the worst in society. They deserve strong advocacy ensuring their rights as workers are protected and employers’ duty of care upheld.
Cardillo Gray Partners have specialist knowledge of common employment-based conflicts experienced in the emergency and essential services sectors.
As the expert emergency services lawyers in Newcastle, our expertise sets us apart from other law firms.
Emergency and essential services workers generally seek help for employment issues, workers compensation advice and representation, and advice and assistance with pension entitlements.
Cardillo Gray Partners also provides representation on criminal charges, assistance with claiming and litigating for superannuation entitlements or associated insured benefits, advice on discrimination matters, and personal injury claims.
Our team has decades of experience in delivering legal expertise in matters, including:
- Employment disputes and industrial relations
- Litigation
- Insurance claims
- Workers compensation and personal injury claims
- Superannuation
- Criminal proceedings and inquests.
If you’re looking for an emergency services lawyer Newcastle, we are here to help. Cardillo Gray Partners has provided legal representation for emergency services workers and essential services workers across a broad range of complex employment issues. Examples include:
- Failure in duty of care – lack of proper training and procedures to deal with traumatic events experienced by paramedics and police officers
- Unfair dismissal – removal of an employee from duty challenged by the applicant as harsh and unreasonable
- Underpayment of compensation – incorrect weekly payments to an employee who sustained a workplace injury
- Total permanent disability (TPD) – breach of contractual obligations by insurers relating to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
