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Katherine Taunton

020 7632 8500 katherine.taunton@11kbw.com

Position

Specialist in employment, commercial, data protection and public law. Katherine is often involved in complex litigation in each of these areas. Her current and recent cases include Forstater v CGD Europe & others [2021] IRLR 706 (EAT proceedings on the question of whether gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act); Jennifer Webster v HMRC (high-profile data protection proceedings brought by a former US citizen to challenge the transfer of financial account information to the US tax authorities under a bilateral treaty); in TW Logistics v Essex County Council [2021] UKSC 4 (concerning the registration of part of a commercial port as a Town and Village Green).

Career

Called to the Bar in 2017.

Before coming to the Bar, Katherine was a consultant at a leading public relations firm, where she advised major companies on corporate-level communications strategies and media relations, particularly in the financial services sector.

Memberships

ELA