Sarah acted as amicus to the Court of Appeal in a case concerning injunctive relief against protestors: Canada Goose Retail Ltd v Persons Unknown [2020] EWCA Civ 303 and a linked case in the High Court: Barking and Dagenham LBC v Persons Unknown [2021] EWHC 1201 (QB).
Sarah has advised individuals, government departments and regulators at the highest level, as sole counsel and as junior counsel.
As a Panel member from 2008 to 2020, she regularly advised government departments on both litigation and policy. She has recently acted for the Home Office, Departments of Education, Health, Justice and DEFRA and has appeared in the High Court, Court of Appeal as sole counsel and as a junior in two Supreme Court cases.
In the education sphere, she has represented Ofsted and has advised the Office for Students, the Education and Skills Funding Agency and the NAHT with regard to employment issues. During the pandemic, she has been instructed in relation to regulatory complaints and challenges for summer 2020 A Level grades.
She has advised and represented a wide range of regulatory bodies from policing to energy and transport.
She also acts for Claimants and was instructed as junior counsel in a successful challenge to an Ofgem decision in 2018-19; R (Gwynt-y-Mor Offshore Wind Farm Ltd) v Gas and Electricity Markets Authority [2019] EWHC 654 (Admin).
She spent much of 2017-9 acting for the Foreign Office in the most recent challenge to UK policy in the Chagos Islands which required her to obtain security clearance and involved an extremely complicated disclosure exercise involving public interest immunity applications and cross-Whitehall liaison.
