Katherine Taunton

Practice Areas

Specialist in employment, commercial, data protection and public law. Katherine is often involved in complex litigation in each of these areas. Her recent cases include Jennifer Webster v HMRC [2024] EWHC 530 (KB) (high-profile data protection claim brought by a former US citizen to challenge the transfer of financial account information to the US tax authorities under a bilateral treaty); Forstater v CGD Europe & others [2021] IRLR 706 (EAT proceedings on the question of whether gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act); J; and TW Logistics v Essex County Council [2021] UKSC 4 (concerning the registration of part of a commercial port as a Town and Village Green).