Investigating serious allegations of workplace misconduct and human rights violations
Fair, thorough, and legally defensible investigations to help you move forward.
Reach out early to prevent a complaint from escalating.
Not every complaint requires an investigation, but when they do, choosing the right investigator is among the most consequential decisions you can make.
Regardless of the nature of the allegations, Chohan Law’s highest priority is ensuring that every investigation will withstand legal scrutiny. Fulfilling our professional responsibilities and maintaining our ethical obligations to everyone involved in a process is always top of mind.
A Balanced Approach
Our approach balances the following hallmarks of legally defensible investigations:
Impartiality between the parties and procedural fairness for complainants and respondents alike.
Independent decision-making throughout the entire process, free of any outside interference or influence on our process and findings.
Trauma-informed approaches that recognize how stress affects memory, behaviour, and communication, leading to more accurate findings and fairer outcomes.
Protecting privacy and confidentiality to the maximum extent possible, while being transparent about possible limitations.
Launching investigations in a timely manner, and collaborating with employers and participants to maintain steady progress towards completion.
Thoroughness in gathering and evaluating relevant evidence to arrive at factual findings.
We investigate allegations of:
✔ Discrimination (including Systemic Discrimination)
✔ Workplace Harassment
✔ Workplace Violence
✔ Poisoned Work Environments
✔ Bullying and Mobbing
✔ Code of Conduct Violations
Not sure an investigation is required?
Investigations have their place, but they are not always the right tool for every situation.
Where allegations of discrimination and harassment are vague or unclear, we are available to conduct threshold assessments to help employers decide if an investigation is the appropriate next step. If not, we can suggest other approaches, such as workplace assessments, mediation, or restorative processes that may be more effective to understand and resolve the issues at hand.
Facing a workplace challenge?
Let’s discuss how we can help navigate this sensitive situation.