Carla combines expertise in employment and data protection law with experience and understanding of the not-for-profit sector. She supports diverse charities including those working in the arts, education, environment, homelessness, health, social care and international development sectors, as well as professional membership bodies. Carla is able to call on her HR, regulatory and safeguarding knowledge to get to the bottom of knotty problems and offer creative solutions.

Clients appreciate Carla’s calm and clear advice on complex and sensitive matters.

Carla qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and joined Russell-Cooke in 2017. She became a partner in 2022.

• Successfully defending a national charity against complaints of unlawful discrimination by a service user

• Advising the board of trustees of a well-known charity after grievances were raised against senior managers

• Supporting a household name charity to respond to allegations of sexual harassment against a trustee

• Working with a professional membership association to develop an equality, diversity and inclusion strategy

• Successfully arguing that TUPE applied on the merger of two animal welfare charities

• Supporting a community charity with a restructure and redundancy process following the end of a key contract

• Advising a religious charity on the publication of information relating to a historic safeguarding investigation

• Assisting a health charity to respond to a request from the Charity Commission for information following a safeguarding alert

• Helping a youth charity to put in place data sharing agreements with government departments and universities

• Advising a membership body on responding to a complex subject access request

• Supporting a charity to deal with a personal data breach affecting children and young people

• Member of the Employment Lawyers Association

• Member of the Charity Law Association

• Chair of The Fitzrovia Chapel Foundation