Insights & News

How to address allegations of discrimination: Karen Baxter and Lucy Hendley write for EG

02 September 2021

Karen Baxter and Lucy Hendley set out the steps to take if your business is accused of being a toxic workplace.

Sports Q&A – Political and religious views of sports stars - balancing contractual restrictions with human rights

01 June 2018

Sports personalities are often subject to sporting rules that restrict their ability to make political statements or promote religious ideology when competing. Furthermore, contractual provisions can also mean that statements made in their personal capacity while off duty, for example on social media, can lead to disciplinary action or worse. Can such restrictions be challenged on the basis of human rights? Does it make a difference if the athlete genuinely holds the views (e.g. because of religious or cultural beliefs)?

Sports Q&A – We store medical and biometric data of our athletes, what will GDPR and the UK Data Protection Bill mean for this?

26 April 2018

The GDPR, which comes into force on 25 May 2018, imposes more onerous requirements when processing (including storing) ‘special categories’ of personal data, which includes ‘data concerning health’ and ‘biometric data’. The processing of ‘special’ personal data is prohibited unless the data controller can show that an exception applies.