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Executive Matters

Issue 7: March 2024

Executive Matters

Editor's Note

Daniel Naftalin - Mishcon de Reya

Welcome to the latest edition of Executive Matters, our quarterly publication tailored to the challenges and legal issues faced by Senior Executives. When engaging with our Senior Executive readership, we like to keep things varied. And this edition is no exception, with a range of articles, podcasts, and training materials all on offer.

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Conflicting beliefs and balancing rights: lessons learnt from Meade and Phoenix

Since Forstater established that gender critical beliefs are protected under s.10 of the Equality Act 2010 (ie the belief that biological sex is real, important and immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity), there has been a series of successful claims for discrimination by gender critical claimants: Forstater itself, Bailey and Fahmy. January saw the publication of two further judgments that continued this trend: Meade and Phoenix.

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ESG for business leaders

Today, more is expected of businesses than ever before. It is crucial for all business leaders to understand the full ESG landscape in order to be equipped to identify and address material risks, opportunities, dependencies and impacts across their businesses and value chains.

Podcast

Women in Wealth: Girls are investors too

In our latest podcast episode, Emily Knight, Managing Associate in the Employment Team is joined by Charlotte Yonge, who is a Fund Manager at Troy Asset Management. Charlotte is also the Founder of a charity called GAIN which stands for ‘Girls Are Investors’. GAIN was set up to promote and inspire girls to pursue a career in investing. Emily spoke to Charlotte about why women historically invest less than men, what is being done to change it and some of the myths and stereotypes around gender and investing.

Podcast

Women in Wealth: Empowering Equity - female owners and donors

Against the backdrop of International Women's Day on 8 March and as part of our Women in Wealth initiative, our latest Mishcon Academy Digital Sessions podcast "Empowering Equity: Female owners and donors" celebrates the successes of increasing the numbers of women in ownership positions, explores the on-going barriers to female capital wealth creation in business, and highlights the propensity of women to nevertheless be benevolent to wider society with pay-it-forward financial support.

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