I assist clients with HR matters including:
- employment status and IR35
- staff handbooks, policies and procedures
- employment contracts, consultancy agreements and volunteer agreements
- flexible working and family rights including maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- performance at work and absence management
- staff disputes, disciplinary and grievance processes
- safeguarding reports and investigations
- discrimination, victimisation, harassment, bullying and whistleblowing issues
- organisational change, restructures, mergers, redundancies, and TUPE (the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations)
- termination, unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, breach of contract and settlement agreements
I help employers to defend claims in the Employment Tribunal, negotiate with ACAS to secure (COT3) settlement. I have defended employers in employment tribunals across the country and have achieved success in judicial mediation.
I also provide advice on data protection matters including:
- lawful collection and use of personal data
- processing sensitive special category data and criminal offence data
- marketing rules and PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations)
- contracts with third-party data processers and data sharing agreements
- international transfers of personal data
- privacy notices, data protection policies and records of data processing activities
- data protection impact assessments and legitimate interests assessments
- data breaches and reporting to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
- subject access requests, requests for erasure and other individual requests
I am dual qualified in England and Scotland. I qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and joined Russell-Cooke in 2017, becoming a senior associate in 2019.
- Supporting a UK-wide charity with a merger and TUPE transfer of employees
- Successfully defending employment tribunal claims of whistleblowing detriment, unfair dismissal and discrimination
- Advising a mid-sized charity following allegations of misconduct against a senior member of staff
- Undertaking a case review of a safeguarding investigation for an international charity
- Guiding a prominent membership organisation through a restructure and redundancy process
- Working in partnership with a consultant company to carry out a data protection audit for a religious organisation
- Assisting a professional accreditation body to respond to a subject access request made in connection with a disciplinary investigation
- Preparing a data protection impact assessment for a homelessness charity
- Drafting bespoke international data transfer agreements for a London university
- Member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
- SRA Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test
- Accelerated Scots law degree at the University of Glasgow and Diploma in Legal Practice at Glasgow Graduate School of Law
- Undergraduate and postgraduate studies in music and English literature at the University of Glasgow
- Before embarking on her legal studies, Carla worked for the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland
