Significant changes to employers’ duties in relation to workplace harassment came into force during October 2026. This webinar will provide a practical guide to what these changes mean for law firms, including the new requirement to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, the expanded obligations relating to harassment by third parties and the increasing focus on proactive risk management and organisational culture. We’ll explore what regulators, tribunals and the Equality and Human Rights Commission are likely to expect from employers, review the key policies, training and reporting mechanisms firms should have in place and discuss how to evidence compliance and reduce legal and reputational risk. Attendees will leave with a practical action plan for ensuring their firm is meeting its legal obligations and creating a safer, more respectful workplace.

Speaker: Amy White – Head of Loch Training and Wellbeing

Amy is an employment solicitor, HR professional, experienced trainer and facilitator and qualified mediator who is Head of Loch Training and Wellbeing, part of the Loch Group.​

Amy uses her experience, expertise and passion for people management to design and deliver interactive and engaging training interventions across a range of people management topics, including management and leadership development, conflict resolution and wellbeing in the workplace and employment law and HR best practice. 

Speaker: Lauren McLaughlin – Partner and Solicitor

Lauren has a wealth of employment law experience, having specialised in this area for over 10 years, and leads the team at Loch’s London office. Having trained at a boutique employment firm, Lauren qualified in 2014 and continued to build her reputation at a larger City firm. Lauren practises the full spectrum of employment law – both contentious and non-contentious. In particular, she has extensive experience of the day-to-day running and strategic aspects of Employment Tribunal litigation.

Dealing in complex, multi-faceted claims of discrimination, victimisation, harassment, and whistleblowing, Lauren has been involved in thorny legal matters right up to the Court of Appeal and is noted in the Legal 500 for her expertise in sex and pregnancy discrimination. Lauren has experience in a range of HR matters and is well equipped to advise businesses on managing senior executive exits, conducting internal processes, redundancies, and reorganisations, as well as routinely drafting employment contracts and policies.

Email Alice.wylie@sussex-law.co.uk to attend