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Zac Sammour
Position
Barrister.
Zac practices in commercial, data protection, employment, media, public, public international, procurement and sports law.
Career
Zac has a varied practice. He has been involved in substantial and complex litigation across commercial, data protection, employment, media, public, public international, procurement and sports law. He is often instructed in cases where those areas intersect. He has appeared in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, every division of the High Court, the EAT, the CAT and a number of specialist first-tier tribunals. Recent and ongoing instructions include TikTok v Information Commissioner (appeal against monetary penalty notice); Taylor v Evans (multi-party High Court proceedings concerning the leak of a confidential report into antisemitism in the Labour Party); ECB v Yorkshire County Cricket Club (sports disciplinary proceedings arising out of Azeem Rafiq’s complaints of racism) Serco v Secretary of State for Defence (high value procurement challenge); Newman v Southampton City Council (the first reported judgment concerning the rights of journalists to access the court file in care proceedings) and Allen & Conti v Rabobank (employment claim concerning the scope of the employer’s duty to indemnify employees and other issues, ongoing in the Commercial Court).
Languages
English
Memberships
ELBA
Education
LLB, first class (LSE)
BCL, Distinction (Oxon)
Leisure
Zac enjoys combat sports. He competed at an amateur level in boxing and Muay Thai for a number of years, and now competes at a recreational level in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Zac Sammour – 11KBW ‘Zac is responsive, has great attention to detail, puts clients at ease and has strong advocacy skills.’
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Zac Sammour – 11KBW ‘A formidable junior counsel.’
London Bar > Sport
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Zac Sammour – 11KBW ‘Brilliant mind with a good eye for detail. Works very hard – prepares assiduously.’