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Zac Sammour

Zac Sammour

11KBW, London

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.

Mentions

London Bar

Data protection

Leading junior2
Zac Sammour – 11KBW ‘He’s excellent and very user-friendly. Clever, thoughtful and hardworking. A go-to junior for data protection.’
London Bar

Defamation and privacy

Leading junior3
Zac Sammour – 11KBW ‘Zac has a super brain that is always ticking. He is one of the best cross examiners in the business. He is exceptional in every area.’ 
London Bar

Employment

Leading junior3
Zac Sammour – 11KBW 'A real fighter, a deadly weapon and someone you most certainly want in your corner.'
London Bar

Sport

Leading junior2
Zac Sammour – 11KBW ‘Zac is a go-to for sports work, not least his skillset within the fields of employment, data protection and litigation. Very easy to work with, client friendly and helps clients to navigate choppy waters. Extremely bright and outshines a lot of more senior barristers. Diligent, always thoroughly prepared, he wipes the floor with his opponents. Zac is a brilliant tactician and works seamlessly with solicitor teams to provide timely pragmatic and commercial advice.’