DEI: building inclusive financial services business

Description

This webinar will provide an exploration of what “inclusion” means in practice within financial services organisations, along with a clear explanation of how discrimination law operates. Drawing on key legal decisions from Jersey and the UK, the session will illustrate real-world scenarios, highlight common compliance and HR challenges, and offer practical guidance for employers. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss issues relevant to their own workplaces.

This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker. 

Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.

 

Content

  • What “inclusion” looks like in practice within financial services

  • Core principles of Jersey discrimination law and parallels with UK case law

  • Real-life legal decisions and the practical lessons they offer

  • Practical steps for strengthening inclusive practices and reducing legal risk

 

Presenter

Vicky Milner 

Partner & Advocate at Viberts
Vicky Milner 

Vicky is widely recognised as the “go to” person for Jersey employment law. She specialises in high profile and complex matters, including Royal Court appeals of Tribunal decisions and cases involving directors of international trust businesses and other key employees. Vicky advises senior executives, private businesses charities on all aspects of employment law. She is regularly sought after to speak on and quoted in relation to employment issues affecting the Island and she has acted as an expert witness on Jersey law in the High Court of Justice of England & Wales.

Vicky has specialised in employment law since 2001 and her experience includes successful litigation in ground-breaking areas, such as challenging the powers of the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal, addressing the independence of Jersey's legislative and judicial systems in employment matters and testing the geographical scope of Jersey law in relation to offshore employment. She has been appointed Amicus Curiae (impartial adviser to the court) in a number of cases. She represented The Law Society of Jersey in a case raising discrimination and human rights issues in connection with admission to the Jersey Bar. She has also appeared in Jersey’s Mental Health Review Tribunal and has advised on issues concerning mental health and mental capacity of senior personnel. Previously Vicky has been Chair of Digital Jersey’s Regulation & Legislation Technical Action Group, Jersey’s Representative for the Employment Lawyers Association (“ELA”) and a member of the Institute of Directors’ Industries Sub-Committee.

Vicky is recognised in the ‘Hall of Fame’, as a ‘Leading Individual’ and as a 'Recommended Lawyer' by the Legal 500 UK 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 edition.