Legal advice for membership organisations

Our membership organisation team advises on employment and pensions issues in the workplace, claims arising from personal injury or travel accidents, clinical negligence affecting members and their families, the protection of privacy and reputation, and a range of other matters for trade union and staff association members.

Leading experts in the field of complex discrimination claims and class actions, our employment lawyers specialise in claims involving equality, whistleblowing and health and safety issues. With decades of experience, the team understands how best to achieve the right result, whether pursuing a claim through litigation or advising on an alternative solution. Our track record includes acting on ground-breaking claims that have pushed the boundaries of workplace rights for the members of various staff associations and trade unions.

Our personal injury and clinical negligence lawyers handle a full range of claims, with particular expertise in complex and catastrophic injury cases. The team includes lawyers who were the first to consider the risks injured police officers face under the Winsor reforms of medical/capacity dismissal.

Safeguarding reputation and privacy is crucial. Our defamation and privacy lawyers take strong and effective action against publications on behalf of membership organisations and their members who are the subject of defamatory allegations. However, prevention is often better than cure, so we regularly advise on press statements and how to keep defamatory stories out of the media.

Increasingly, we assist staff association members whose private and confidential information has been wrongly disclosed, whether by their employer, the media or another third party. We also advise on group actions relating to data protection and privacy, including data security, consent, controller/processor issues, marketing campaigns and subject access requests.