Atlantic Chambers

Chancery and Commercial, Court of Protection, Landlord & Tenant, Wills, Probate & Trusts

Year of Call 2006

Door Tenant

Property

Sarah’s expertise includes providing specialist advice and representation, and undertaking drafting on the following:

Landlord and Tenant• The interpretation of commercial and residential leases, often where there is a Headlease with a succession of Underleases and Subleases;• Leasehold enfranchisement;• Dilapidations;• Forfeiture;• Unlawful eviction.

Real Property

• Orders for Possession and/or Sale;• Property-related torts, such as nuisance and trespass;• Easements;• Restrictive covenants;• Boundary disputes• Land registration and rectification of the Register.

Commercial Litigation

Sarah provides advice and representation, and undertakes drafting in various areas of commercial litigation, including the following:

Commercial and Contractual Disputes• Interpretation of contracts and breach of contract, including commercial contracts, building contracts; and contracts for the supply of goods and services,• Misrepresentation, duress, and undue influence.

Banking and Financial Services

• Disputes arising from alleged breaches of banking terms and conditions; pertaining to lending facilities; arising out of the enforcement of guarantees, charges, or other securities;• Disputes relating to payments.

Professional Negligence

• Claims against solicitors in such areas of practice as the preparation and execution of Wills, and conveyancing;• Claims against banking professionals and financial services institutions.

Trusts, Wills & Estates

Sarah’s expertise includes providing specialist advice and representation, and undertaking drafting on the following:Succession and Contentious and Non-Contentious Probate• Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975 claims on behalf of spouses, cohabitees, children, stepchildren, and siblings of the Deceased;• testamentary capacity;• challenges to the validity of Wills;• Executors’ powers and duties;• Applications for the removal of Executors;• the settlement of Wills and the administration of Estates;• the rectification and variation of Wills.

Trusts, including Trusts of Land and Co-Ownership• Trust Deeds and Deeds of Variation;• Trustees’ powers and duties;• Breach of trust and the removal of Trustees;• the merits of trusts claims (including express, resulting, and constructive trusts, and proprietary estoppel);• Applications for the removal of Trustees;• Claims under The Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 for declarations of trust and beneficial interest in co-ownership disputes.

• Issues of capacity and undue influence;• Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney;• Welfare, Property and Financial Affairs;• the appointment and removal of Deputies (including cases of alleged financial abuse);• the Deprivation of Liberty, including vulnerable elderly clients or persons with autism;• claims for possession of property of a person lacking capacity.

Member of the Bar of Ireland

Chancery Bar Association

European Circuit of the Bar

Family Law Bar Association

London Irish Lawyers Association

Northern Circuit

Contentious Trusts Association

B.A. (Hons.) (English and German Literature), University College Galway

Ph.D. (German Literature and Philosophy), National University of Ireland, Galway

LL. Dip., The College of Law, London

B.V.C., Inns of Court School of Law

M.A. (Philosophy), University of Liverpool

Degree of Barrister-at-Law, The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin

Postgraduate Research Fellow, National University of Ireland

Inner Temple Exhibitioner

Alexander Mair Dissertation Prize, University of Liverpool