“When Pride is over it’s not safe to be gay any more,” the American singer Halsey said last month after a lesbian couple were attacked on a bus in London for refusing to kiss.
Before the Pride march in the capital on Saturday, law firms — which are well represented in the top 100 employers listed by the LGBT rights charity Stonewall — may be wondering how safe it is for their staff outside the legal bubble of London, let alone elsewhere in the world.
Law firms have a duty of care to their staff when they send them on placements or assignments to jurisdictions such as Russia and the Middle East in which there is overt hostility to gay people, bisexuals and trans
