Elizabeth Chuks Consultant Solicitor

Elizabeth has over 20 years’ experience in the legal sector. Most recently, she has held roles including Privacy Counsel (predominantly allocated to HR) and Senior Employment Lawyer (Head of Team). She specialises in data protection, particularly as it relates to the employment relationship, and she seamlessly collaborates with HR and senior management departments. She also provides outstanding employment law advice. Elizabeth advises on national and international laws in these areas.

Elizabeth has private practice, public sector, and in-house experience. She has worked in regulated organisations and in a global business which operates across several separate jurisdictions. She has provided compliance advice for organisations with between 6,000-8,000 employees. Elizabeth has also been the privacy professional assigned to individual companies within a Group structure, which has enabled her to provide DPO-type services across various types of business.

Elizabeth can support you with the following services:

Data protection

• Privacy policy and privacy notice drafting
• AI and automated decision-making assessments
• Data breach, incident response, and breach prevention strategy advice
• ROPA, audits and DPO support/secondment support
• Data protection impact assessments and legitimate interest assessments, including for the onboarding of overseas suppliers
• IDTA, SCCs and TRAs for cross-border transfers and Data Processing Agreement (DPA) drafting
• Direct marketing, behavioural advertising, PECR, cookies and tracking pixels, lead generation and social media marketing advice
• Data subject rights matters
• Freedom of information (FOI) and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) authorisation work
• Surveillance (including ANPR, CCTV, dash cam devices, telematics, facial and audio recognition technology) deployment

Employment law

• Employee DSARs
• Employee monitoring and workplace CCTV/surveillance systems use
• Support with AI in recruitment
• Employee screening, including for SMCR and sanctions checking
• Internal fraud prevention strategies
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and small to large-scale on-shore and off-shore outsourcing and consultancy arrangements
• Employee data migrations
• Employees’ Information Commission complaints and other employee relations issues

Approach to work and clients

Elizabeth’s approach is centred on attention to detail and great customer care. She has a solutions-based attitude, and compliance is at the height of her work. She prides herself on delivering beyond what has been requested.

She is CIPP/E certified and has basic fluency in German. In addition to advising on national law, she has gained a wealth of experience in providing privacy and HR advice for business and work activities conducted in territories based in the UK Channel Islands and the EU, various states in the US, and a small number of countries located in the APAC and EMEA regions.