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In addition to institutions, we also assist professionals in higher education, including both academics and those in non-academic roles, with the legal issues that arise within their work, research and publications. 

Areas where we can support, include:

• HR Guidance
  • Rights under contractual terms, policies, procedures and local ordinances
  • Grievances, student complaints, disputes, disciplinary, performance management and sickness absence
  • Redundancies, outsourcing, restructuring, and TUPE  
  • Employment Tribunal claims 
• Free Speech and Academic Freedom
  • Campus free speech law
  • Office for Students free speech complaints scheme
  • Disputes, complex litigation matters, grievances and disciplinaries
• Student support with Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIAHE) complaints
  • Dispute handling support and advice on rights and options
  • Complaints, appeals, disciplinary issues, discrimination, dealing with the OIAHE - including challenging OIAHE decisions
• Data Protection
  • Data subject rights and responsibilities under the GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
  • Accessing personal data under data protection or freedom of information legislation
  • Data subject access requests 
  • Personal data breaches 
• Pensions
  • Benefit entitlement under pension schemes such as the LGPS, or USS 
  • Pension arrangement disputes
  • Pension rights on loss of employment  
  • Re-organisation exercises (including TUPE) as well as pensions advice on redundancy 
• Intellectual Property and Defamation
  
  • Copyright infringement, plagiarism or academic malpractice
  • Bringing or responding to claims of defamation

James Murray
Legal Director
+44 (0)20 7778 7226
jmurray@doyleclayton.co.uk