From Reaction to Prevention: A Guide to Employers' New Duty to Tackle Sexual Harassment

Liz Orrin

Trainee, Wiggin LLP

Liz is currently a Trainee in Wiggin’s Employment team, assisting and advising media and technology businesses on both the contentious and non-contentious elements of employment law and HR issues.

Prior to commencing her training contract, Liz worked in the firm’s Film and TV team, and in-house at several UK and European production and distribution companies, giving her detailed sector knowledge and understanding of the day to day intricacies of production matters.

Seth Roe

Partner, Wiggin LLP

Seth has over 15 years of experience helping media and technology businesses with their HR needs.

He predominantly advises film and TV businesses, providing practical and effective solutions to the executives, managers, in-house lawyers and HR teams that he works with day to day, as well as regularly dealing with complicated employment disputes.

Recent work has included successfully defending a number of highly sensitive Employment Tribunal claims related to harassment, discrimination and whistleblowing; strategising and advising on a number of large scale business restructurings; providing guidance to production companies and US studios regarding the recent changes to the laws on holiday pay; and enforcing non‑compete restrictions against senior executives in High Court proceedings.

Seth recently chaired a film and TV industry working group analysing the developments in holiday pay law and their implications for productions, and regularly delivers workshops and training to clients and industry bodies on a variety of topics, from harassment prevention to Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE). He also previously led Wiggin’s work in relation to HR-related Covid-19 advice during the pandemic which involved advising all of Wiggin’s major US studio and SVOD clients in this area.