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.
