Dr Catriona Cannon

Lecturer in Equality Law (School of Law)

telephone: 0141 330 1986
email: Catriona.Cannon@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Biography

Catriona joined the School of Law as a Lecturer in Commercial Law in November 2018. She has a PhD (2018) and a LL.B with Honours in Scots Law (2003) from the University of Glasgow and a Diploma in Legal Practice (2004) from the Glasgow Graduate School of Law. After completing a legal traineeship, she worked for many years in commercial legal practice as a qualified solicitor specialising in Employment Law.

Her research interests are primarily in the areas of Labour Law and Anti-Discrimination Law. Her PhD thesis considers the exceptions to the equality in employment principle afforded to religious employers in Great Britain. Using comparative and empirical methodologies, she makes a case for applying freedom of association principle to their interpretation.

She teaches both commercial and private law subjects in the School of Law.

Research interests

Catriona’s research interests are primarily in Labour Law and Anti-Discrimination law. She has a particular interest in researching issues pertaining to religion or belief in the workplace and in using empirical and comparative methodologies.

Publications

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Number of items: 12.

2025

Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Intervenors in anti-discrimination law cases in the UK: friends of justice? Civil Justice Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412, Esser, Irene-Marié ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-3296 and MacNeil, Iain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-4292 (2025) The legal dimension of ‘corporate purpose’: a study of companies with a religious influence. European Business Law Review, (Accepted for Publication)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Empathy and the Equality Act 2010 in cases on religion or belief. Juridical Review, (Accepted for Publication)

Busby, Nicole and Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Positive equality and human rights duties in Scotland. Edinburgh Law Review, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2024) Alice Taylor, Interpreting Discrimination Law Creatively: Statutory Discrimination Law in the UK, Canada and Australia [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023. 264 pp, ISBN 9781509952922]. Industrial Law Journal, (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwae028)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

2023

Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2023) Muslim women in the workplace and the Equality Act 2010: opportunities for an intersectional analysis. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 23(3), pp. 185-215. (doi: 10.1177/13582291231176513)

2021

Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2021) “Fire and re-hire”: retain, abolish, or reform? Green's Employment Law Bulletin, 164, pp. 1-4.

Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2021) Freedom of religious association: towards a purposive interpretation of the employment equality exceptions. Industrial Law Journal, 50(1), pp. 1-35. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwz025)

2019

Cannon, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2019) Brexit and discrimination law. Employment Law Bulletin, 150, pp. 2-4.

2016

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2016) The role of social partners. In: Bogg, Alan, Costello, Cathryn and Davies, A.C.L. (eds.) Edward Elgar Research Handbook on European Labour Law. Series: Research handbooks in European law series. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 89-113. ISBN 9781783471119