Catherine Taylor

Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP

Catherine Taylor is a Partner in the CMS Employment team and Co-Head of the Litigation Arbitration Insurance & Employment Practice Group. She works on employment issues, both contentious and non-contentious and has specific expertise in complex multi-jurisdictional and High Court litigation (especially bonus and employee competition disputes), board level disputes and data protection. Catherine also guides employers through complex investigations, setting the strategy and working with other teams to ensure the best possible client outcome. Her practice is employer focused, with a particular interest in the Financial Services and Technology, Media & Communications sectors. Catherine is joint author of Employee Competition (3rd Edition, published by OUP in 2016). She plays a leading role in the firm’s women’s network, CMS Women.

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Cross-border employment disputes—key procedural issues in High Court litigation

Practice Notes

This Practice Note examines key procedural issues that may arise in the High Court in relation to cross-border litigation in an employment context, including the scope for an injunction to restrain proceedings in other jurisdictions (anti-suit injunction), service of proceedings out of the jurisdiction, and security for costs.

Employment

Determining applicable law and jurisdiction, and the territorial scope of statutory employment

Checklists

This Checklist provides an overview of the questions to be asked when determining which system of law is applicable to a contract of employment or employment relationship (applicable law), whose courts and/or tribunals should decide an employment case (jurisdiction) and how the courts and employment tribunals decide what statutory rights, if any, are held by an employee who works abroad and/or has a foreign employer (territorial application or scope of statutory employment rights). It provides links to relevant Practice Notes and Flowcharts.

Employment

Determining jurisdiction in employment disputes (1 January 2021 onwards)—flowchart

Flowcharts

This Flowchart provides an overview of the questions to be asked when determining whose courts and/or tribunals should decide an employment case (jurisdiction), with links to other relevant Checklists and Practice Notes. It is for use where the proceedings are instituted on or after 1 January 2021.

Employment