39 Essex Chambers

• Sadie Crapper is an outstanding senior junior practising in personal injury, clinical negligence and police law.  She regularly acts as sole Counsel in complex liability and quantum disputes concerning catastrophic and life-changing injuries.  She is regularly pitted against senior Silks and is described as a Silk in waiting by many commentators.  Since her role as second junior in the seminal fraud case of Summers v Fairclough Homes, Sadie has been in the vanguard of the law on fundamental dishonesty and contempt specialising in dishonest exaggeration of injuries/loss.  She secured the first strike out for fraud in Fari v Haringay Homes and acted for the NHSLA in Atwal v Calderdale NHS Trust.   In addition to her injury practice, Sadie continues to act for the Police Federation in the Police Overtimes Claim Litigation working with Martin Westgate KC and leading a team of juniors within Chambers.  After a successful trip to the Court of Appeal and in the lead claim of KSO v CPS Met, Sadie’s team continue to manage the litigation.

Called 2004; Grays Inn.

As a first generation university attendee from state school in Sheffield, Sadie attended Trinity College, Oxford but on graduating briefly pursued her love of books by working in publishing before moving to a short stint as employment law researcher for Thames Valley Police.  Sadie secured pupillage at 3PB whilst in Bar School and had a diverse legal education ranging from criminal matters to family before resting on employment, police and personal injury.  In 2010 Sadie moved to 39 Essex Chambers to concentrate on injury and police work.  Since then her career has gone from strength to strength, gaining exposure to cases of significant import like Summers, Dowson v CC of Northumbria Police and the POCL whilst developing a case load which quickly saw her progress to high value matters and injuries of the utmost severity.  Alongside her practice, Sadie retains a key interest in social mobility and the pursuit of diversity and inclusion at the Bar. She has worked with and championed charities like Futureversity, Bridging the Bar, Neurodiversity in Law, 10,000 black interns and the Sutton Trust.

English. Basic French.

PIBA, PNBA

High Storrs School, Sheffield.  Trinity College, Oxford.  Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law, City University.