Sarah was called in 1999 and took Silk in 2018. She is particularly experienced in handling cases with an international element and regularly deals with matters involving jurisdiction and conflict of law issues in both the personal injury and commercial fields. She is recognised by the leading directories for her work in travel and personal injury. She accepts instructions in German and reads documents in French and Spanish.
Sarah regularly appears in court in applicable law disputes including interpretation and application of choice of law rules. She has particular expertise in handling foreign expert law evidence and frequently deals with jurisdiction issues arising out of forum disputes involving other Member States, non-European courts and intra-UK issues. Significant cases include Cox v Ergo [2014] UKSC, Moreno v MIB [2015] UKSC and Marshall and Pickard v MIB [2015] EWHC.
Sarah has expertise in all types of personal injury claims with a foreign element. She has acted for claimants and defendants in catastrophic and spinal cord injury claims on package holidays as well as group litigation matters involving food poisoning and norovirus; third party supplier and contribution claims; road traffic claims; direct actions against insurers; claims under the Montreal Convention 1999; Athens Convention and admiralty claims. She has acted in cases of abuse, clinical negligence and cosmetic treatments and employer’s liability where cross-border issues arose. She is regularly instructed in claims involving military personnel stationed overseas.
Sarah’s practice includes direct actions against motor insurers and public liability insurers across Europe, applying foreign law. She has particular experience in MIB claims with a European element and appeared for the claimant in the leading case of Moreno v MIB.
She speaks publicly on many aspects of cross-border practice, including for the European Circuit and PIBA on the EU Withdrawal Act 2018 and its implications for personal injury practitioners as well as the Outer Temple seminar series on cross-border claims.
Publications
- APIL Guide to Accidents Abroad (Jordans), Editor and contributor. Second edition (July 2018). The guide is a comprehensive practitioner’s textbook on all aspects of personal injury claims with an international element comprehensively updated to include recent caselaw and the new Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018.
- Personal Injury Law Journal: ‘What did Europe ever do for us?’ (July 2017) and ‘X v Kuoni: What’s the Point of the Package Travel Regulations?’ ( for publication 2018)
- New Law Journal and Solicitors Journal, various articles.
Contact Details:
Outer Temple Chambers
The Outer Temple
WC2R 1BA
Telephone: 020 7353 6381
Email: [email protected]