Emma is an employment partner, with extensive experience advising clients on all employment law and human resources-related matters, such as performance management and discipline issues, grievances, restructures, holiday entitlement and holiday pay, and defending claims in the Employment Tribunal.
As well as employment law, Emma also has a strong background in data protection and privacy, advising clients on a range of issues relating to privacy and data protection law, including policies and legislative compliance, data subject rights, data breaches, and international data transfers. Emma has a particular interest in the introduction of new technologies and systems (including AI), and assists clients in relation to this to ensure compliance.
Emma regularly delivers training sessions on a variety of both employment and data protection-related matters.
Emma Loveday-Hill … brings extensive experience in data protection matters.
The Legal 500 2025
Expertise
Employment
- Restructures
- Redundancy
- TUPE
- Performance management
- Disciplinaries
- Grievances
- Settlement negotiations
- Restrictive covenants
- Pay and benefits
- Working time
- Holiday entitlement and holiday pay
- Sickness and absence management.
- Employment Tribunal claims
- Whistleblowing
- Discrimination
- Unfair dismissal
- HR and employment-related policies
Data Protection
- Data protection compliance
- Data protection impact assessments
- Data protection provisions in contracts
- Transfer of data internationally
- Privacy-related policies
- Website privacy policies and cookie policies/usage
- Data subject access requests
- Data breaches
- Employee monitoring
- Screening checks (including in relation to criminal convictions)
- Implementation and use of CCTV systems
Experience
Employment
- Assisted an online retailer in defending an Employment Tribunal claim involving claims for discrimination and unfair dismissal.
- Provided support to a public sector client in relation to a grievance raised by a senior and long-serving employee.
- Advised a logistics company in relation to an employee’s long-term sickness, and the management of this.
- Advised on HR and employment-related policies, including updating existing policies as well as writing new policies for a large not-for-profit organisation.
- Advised a construction client on various employment-related issues, including performance management and disciplinary issues.
- Defended an international client against claims for discrimination in the Employment Tribunal, and successfully concluded settlement negotiations.
Data Protection
- Advised an international retail client in relation to all aspects of its data protection compliance, including in relation to its new projects, assisting with the completion of data protection impact assessments, reviewing the data protection provisions in the contracts, meeting with vendors, and advising in relation to potential issues and next steps.
- Advised an international client in the racing industry in relation to the transfer of data internationally, both within and outside of companies in its group.
- Advised a regional financial services client in relation to its website privacy and cookie policy and assisted that client with a complaint in relation to their use of cookies.
- Advised an international client in relation to a number of data breaches, including assessing the issues and reporting the breaches to the ICO.
- Advised a construction client on employee monitoring and use of CCTV.
- Advised a financial services client in relation to carrying out background screening checks (including in relation to criminal convictions).
- Acted as data protection officer for clients in different sectors, including a large international money exchange client, and a company carrying out research in life sciences, supporting its growth from a startup, through its funding cycles and eventual sale.
- Advised an accountancy client in relation to a subject access request, providing advice, support with the document review, and the response to the individual.
Recognition
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)
Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe (CIPP/E)
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Recognised as a leading individual for Employment by The Legal 500
“Emma Loveday-Hill … brings extensive experience in data protection matters”
The Legal 500 2025
Career
Emma qualified as a solicitor in 2011. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2025, she worked at the following firms:
- Prettys Solicitors
- Edmondson Hall
- Taylor Vinters