Sarah is a specialist in complex clinical negligence, inquests, inquiries, personal injury and costs cases.
Experienced across the board in all types of medical claims, she now increasingly focuses on highly complex neurological brain injury, spinal, amputation and obstetric injury claims, including twins, and wrongful birth cases, acting both for Claimants and Defendants. She also has a significant caseload of fatal cases, particularly those arising out of delayed cancer diagnoses, cases of suicide by mental health patients, and secondary victim claims.
In inquests, with particular expertise in medical deaths, Sarah is instructed by families and by NHS Trusts, and has sensitive experience of both jury and non jury inquests, death in custody and cases attracting considerable media interest.
From 2022 Sarah is instructed in Module 3 of the Covid Inquiry.
Sarah also defends before both the GMC and GDC, where her experience encompasses alleged personal and professional misconduct cases, clinical malpractice, professional fraud and non clinical criminal matters, as well as health and substance dependency cases.
Alongside her practice at the Bar, Sarah has since 2012 sat part time as a judge, as a Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit (crime and civil) and since 2013 as a Deputy Costs Judge of the Senior Courts Costs Office.
Call: 1994; KC: 2018; Gray’s Inn.
Goldie Award scholar. Recorder SE Circuit 2012. Deputy Costs Judge SCCO 2013.
Publications: ‘Westlaw online encyclopaedia’, ‘Jowitt’s Dictionary of Law’, ‘Law Society ethics for Advocates Manual’, ‘Sweet & Maxwell Personal Injury Handbook’, ‘Introduction to Human Rights and Common Law’.
French, German; some Russian.
Professional Negligence Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association.
Brighton and Hove High School; Magdalen College, Oxford.