Thorough, Fair & Legally Impartial Workplace Investigations
Guaranteed professional fact-finding service by Clara O’Sullivan (AWI-CH), an internationally accredited Irish solicitor and workplace investigator based in Dublin, Ireland.
Bringing an experienced legal mind to complex workplace matters
Clara O’Sullivan Workplace Investigations (COSWI) guarantee a professional fact-finding service by an internationally accredited solicitor and workplace investigator.
Bringing a legal mind to a workplace investigation enables a big picture approach while ensuring no fine detail is missed in the analysis. Applying an experienced legal lens to each investigation also means that it is thorough, fair and impartial. These are elements which will also shine through in the written report.
Big Picture Strategic Approach
Understanding wider organizational risks, reputational consequences, and employment tribunal precedents so the investigation aligns seamlessly with institutional governance.
Meticulous Evidence Analysis
No stone unturned. Thorough collection, forensic handling, and cross-referencing of emails, digital communications, witness statements, and contemporaneous notes.
Legally Robust Written Reports
Exhaustively reasoned, defensible fact-finding reports that withstand internal appellate scrutiny, WRC hearings, High Court review, or regulatory audits.
Confidential Witness Interviews & Fact-Gathering
Conducted with exemplary procedural fairness, calm neutral moderation, and meticulous contemporaneous record-keeping.
Documentary Review & Defensible Analysis
Exhaustive examination of digital trails, contemporaneous notes, contracts, and relevant regulatory baselines.
Board-Level Impartiality for Ireland's Most Sensitive Corporate Inquiries
From Dublin headquarters overlooking the Liffey to multinational corporate boards across all 32 counties, Clara O’Sullivan provides discreet, high-calibre investigative counsel that protects integrity, shields organizational governance, and withstands external judicial testing.
Legally protected channels with direct reporting lines to GC & Board.
Rapid on-site deployment in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick & nationwide.
Zero vulnerability to natural justice procedural claims.
Receive advice on Terms of Reference formulation, preliminary conflict screening, and appropriate investigative protocols.
Initiate Executive RetainerIndependent Fact-Finding For Balanced Employment Decisions
COSWI exclusively conducts impartial investigations relating to all workplace matters. Workplace investigations provide employers with the knowledge they need to make informed, balanced employment decisions.
Bullying, Harassment & Dignity at Work
Comprehensive and sensitive inquiry into allegations of workplace bullying, sexual harassment, discriminatory treatment under the Employment Equality Acts, and interpersonal toxic grievances.
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Whistleblowing & Protected Disclosures
Legally governed review of complex allegations under the Protected Disclosures Act (as amended). Handling sensitive disclosures of wrongdoing, corporate malfeasance, and breach of statutory duties.
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Executive & Senior Leadership Inquiries
Discreet investigations involving C-suite executives, senior partners, board directors, and key management personnel where independence and confidentiality are of paramount organizational importance.
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Clara O’Sullivan AWI-CH
With a background in legal practice as a qualified Solicitor of the Courts of Ireland, Clara brings a deep understanding of natural justice, fair procedures, the law of evidence, and contractual obligations to every mandate. Her investigative training through AWI in California ensures world-standard methodologies in witness questioning, bias mitigation, and forensic credibility assessment.
Process for an Investigation
Our investigation process is methodical, thorough and transparent. We provide a clear roadmap from the outset as to how the investigation will run. Clients are kept fully informed of progress while ensuring that there is sufficient independence to guarantee that the integrity of the investigation is maintained at all times.
Initial Contact
Speak with client and determine investigation requirements
Planning
Create a roadmap for the investigation
Interviews & Evidence
Identify and obtain all available evidence, including documentary and electronic evidence • Conduct witness interviews
Report Writing
We use a clearly defined methodology to make credibility determinations, carry out an analysis and reach a finding in each case.
Investigations During Restrictions & Remote Operations
Prompt investigation of a complaint is crucial and delays must be avoided at all costs. We offer virtual investigations to clients when necessary, following leading protocol on how to conduct online interviews confidentially and securely so that the quality of the investigation is not compromised.
Request our remote witness handling and evidence confidentiality checklist.
Initiate a Confidential Inquiry
Every mandate is handled with discretion under professional legal conduct rules. We provide scoping within 24 hours.
Direct preliminary consultation with Clara O'Sullivan AWI-CH to establish parameters, viability, and anticipated timeline.