
Clerks and chambers staff: your responsibility for spotting and preventing discrimination, harassment and bullying
Date: Wednesday 5th February 2025
Timing: Registration 4:30 for a 5pm start with networking to follow
Venue: Fox Williams, 10 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AF
Format: IN PERSON ONLY


This session, kindly provided by Fox Williams, is open to all IBC members at all levels of seniority. It is intended to be an introduction to these topics and a precursor to roundtable discussions on future dates.
This topic is ultimately relevant to everyone, as there are few people employed by chambers who don’t either work as part of a team, have line management responsibility, or interact with barristers; particularly around allocation of work, practice management or when undertaking business development activities.
It is easy to think that these subjects are solely the responsibility of senior management. They are, however, everyone’s responsibility.
Join us on Wednesday 5th February for an in person training session (registration 4.30pm for a 5pm start) with Fox Williams at their offices in Finsbury Square. They are also kindly providing a canape reception afterwards (from 6pm – 7pm) to network with colleagues from other sets and members of the Fox Williams employment team.
The session will include:
- An overview of the legal framework of bullying, harassment and discrimination and the risks if things go wrong
- What behaviours amount to bullying, harassment and discrimination and how these arise in chambers
- The new duty to prevent sexual harassment
We’ll also touch on topics such as:
- What we can do as individuals, managers and sets to protect ourselves individually and those around us
- Why don’t people speak up?
- When do you have a duty to intervene even if no one is actively complaining?
- The blurred boundaries between work and private life
- The proposed introduction of a duty to prevent third party harassment