Dee Masters

Discrimination law

Employment law

Technology, data and equality law

Dee has over 20 years of experience in the field of employment law and discrimination with a practice that primarily consists of multi-week trials. She is instructed by employers, employees and unions in high value or important matters. Due to her expertise, she regularly advises NGOs and government agencies on the development of discrimination law and she has delivered judicial training on discrimination law at ERA in Trier funded by the European Commission.

She has particular expertise in equal pay having represented both employers and employees in complex equal pay claims since 2006. At the beginning of her practice, she acted as a junior in the public sector equal pay litigation which started in the North of England representing large multiples of female claimants in low paid roles in the NHS. This led to appearing, at appellate level, in some of the defining equal pay cases which arose from the public sector pay disputes such as Bainbridge (no 2). More recently, she has represented banks and private companies in valuable equal pay litigation including the recent wave of claims in the retail sector.

Dee is also a leading practitioner in the technology space in relation to the interplay between artificial intelligence, equality law, human rights and data protection. She was the CogX 2021 finalist for the Global Leadership Award.