Elouisa Crichton

Elouisa Crichton is Counsel within Dentons' People Reward and Mobility practice and works on Scottish, UK and international matters.

She is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in both employment and discrimination law. Chambers and Partners ranks her as the Employment Star Associate 2024. Legal 500 chose her as the Employment Rising Star of the Year 2023, and has ranked her as Rising Star in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Elouisa assists international organisations with large scale investigations; Equality Act obligations to employees, customers and service users; and support during EHRC enquiries and enforcement action. She advises on bullying and harassment, tribunal claims, mediation, corporate transactions, contracts, policies, governance, restrictive covenants, TUPE, redundancy, trade unions/industrial relations (including CAC applications for recognition and European Works Council matters), collective consultations (TUPE, redundancy, contractual changes and pension changes), employment GDPR (Legal 500 notes that expertise extends to employment related data protection matters), employment aspects of insolvency, general HR advisory and employment/equality matters in the context of professional sport. She has worked on several high profile cultural change matters under intense media scrutiny.

Noted by Legal 500 as having discrimination expertise and being "a specialist in maternity and shared parental leave, gender pay gap reporting, equal pay and gender equality matters" she recently created a Global Family Leave and Pay Snapshot Guide which shows the entitlements in over 86 countries to maternity, paternity, shared and adoption leave. She supports clients with sensitive sexual harassment matters, criminal investigations connected to employment and institutional bias (including racism, micro aggressions and unconscious bias) and has spoken at various events, including the Employment Law Group, on the practicalities of managing these matters.

Elouisa was the sole legal member of Engender’s expert working group on sexual harassment in the workplace and spoke on this matter to members of the Scottish Parliament.

Elouisa is an active member of the Employment Lawyers Association pro bono committee and a founding volunteer for the Maternity Action online legal support forum hosted via Mumsnet.