Avocats – England

Sarah Riding

Partner

Gowling WLG

Sarah Rigby

Senior Associate

Shoosmiths LLP

Sarah Robinson

Managing Partner

Premier Legal LLP

Sarah Rock

Sarah heads the Firm’s construction practice and specialises in both contentious and non-contentious advice. She has particular experience helping clients in relation to the Building Safety Act, sporting projects and digital construction. Sarah has vast experience of providing advice to assist clients with navigating and staying compliant with the Building Safety Act. From leaseholder certificates to registering higher-risk buildings to navigating the gateways processes Sarah is a market leader in this new and fast paced area of law. She has produced checklists to assist clients with complying with their obligations of managing higher-risk buildings and her dual specialisms of building safety and digital construction leaves her well placed to advise on the Golden Thread of Data. Sarah sits on the British Property Federation’s Building Safety Sounding Board. Sarah also specialises in the field of Building Information Modelling (BIM) having advised numerous clients on the incorporation of this technology into their projects. She has had several papers published on the subject as well as being a named contributor to the Chartered Institute Of Building’s Complex Projects Contract, having assisted with drafting of the BIM clauses. She also co-authored The Winfield Rock Report for the UK BIM Alliance. Having previously acted for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and a Premier League football club on all of the construction elements of its £100m new training ground facility, Sarah sits on the Firm’s Sports working group. Sarah is the Firm’s partner lead for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and sits on the board of Freehold LGBT+ CIC, a network for property professionals who identify as LGBT+. In April 2024 Sarah was awarded LGBTQIA Corporate Champion of the Year at the DIVA Awards.

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Sarah Roques

Of Counsel, European and UK Patent Attorney

J A Kemp

Sarah Rowland

Sarah is a Partner in the Medical Negligence department and leads a team of lawyers who are based in the Sheffield office. Sarah has specialised in medical law for more than 20 years, and has particular expertise in birth injury, amputation, and spinal injury cases.

Irwin Mitchell

Sarah Seed

Partner in the banking team, advising lenders and borrowers on debt finance (with a particular specialism in the not-for-profit and public sectors).

Mills & Reeve LLP

Sarah Shafiq

Senior Associate

Fieldfisher

Sarah Sharples

Associate

Irwin Mitchell

Sarah Skinner

Sarah is a Principal Associate in the Birmingham office. Sarah joined Weightmans in 2016 and having qualified as a solicitor in 2001, she has over 22 years post qualification experience in clinical negligence and insurance litigation to include cases involving claims validation issues. She specialises in defendant clinical negligence litigation for NHS Trusts and NHS Resolution, advising clients on high value and complex claims within the healthcare sector. She has substantial advocacy experience having been called to the Bar in 1998 and regularly attends Court on behalf of clients. Sarah handles a wide range of cases of utmost severity to include birth injury and brain injury cases, psychiatric damage, neurosurgery cases such as cauda equina syndrome and vascular matters resulting in amputation/stroke cases with values often exceeding £10 million. She is experienced in dealing with cases involving the vast majority of medical specialisms to include paediatric matters and cases of particular sensitivity. In addition to utilising various forms of ADR to facilitate pragmatic resolution, Sarah also has extensive trial experience to include reported High Court cases. Sarah has successfully defended a number of cases at trial resulting in significant savings for the defendant. Sarah’s advocacy experience means that she is able to work sensitively with NHS Trust factual witnesses to develop their confidence and to prepare them for trial. Sarah has a particular interest in legal knowledge and practice development and regularly delivers training to clients and fee earners on a variety of practice and healthcare related topics.

Weightmans LLP

Sarah Skuse

Bevan Brittan LLP

Sarah Smith

Sarah is a Legal Director in our corporate defence and compliance team. Her practice focuses on fraud, money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, cybercrime and all aspects of POCA (criminal and civil). This well-rounded and comprehensive experience allows Sarah to analyse cases through various lenses and issues — including privilege and disclosure — and provide clients with the most objective advice at each stage of the process. The wide definition and application of fraud has seen Sarah be instructed by those accused of dishonesty and fraud across a wide spectrum, including professional disciplinary proceedings brought by the SRA. Sarah’s fraud practice is a full service offering that includes both the traditional contentious work of criminal investigations and prosecutions as well as non-contentious work that includes reviewing current governance and designing and implementing adequate internal procedures and policies. This includes conducting discreet internal reviews and investigations to review, test and draft compliance and protective policies, as well as informing any advice to self-report. She regularly receives instructions from individuals, managers, directors, senior management, boards and corporates — and irrespective of what the trigger for the advice is, Sarah takes the time to understand her clients’ goals and provide strategic and holistic advice in relation to achieving the best possible outcome. With criminal investigations, Sarah has extensive experience in representing individuals in all formal interviews — whether under caution, arrest, voluntary or compelled powers — as well as corporates in relation to written responses under caution. Accurate identification of the issues and analysis of the evidence at this stage can result in no further action being taken or out of court disposals being negotiated. These courses of action offer significant reputational, cost and certainty of outcome benefits in the current climate, where limited resources across the criminal justice system can result in long and anxious delays. This disposal can also avoid some of the draconian ancillary orders that a court may consider, including POCA. Sarah is experienced in managing adverse publicity and seeking to minimise reputational damage.

Brabners LLP

Sarah Souter

Sarah specialises in private company mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investments. She acts for companies, private equity investors and management teams. Sarah also advises on corporate advisory matters. Sarah was named Young Dealmaker of the Year at the Thames Valley Deal Awards 2019.

Broadfield Law UK LLP

Sarah Spurling

Sarah is a member of the Finance department. She is an experienced finance lawyer whose practice focuses on domestic and cross-border debt financings, advising corporates, investors, developers, banks, funds and other financial institutions from a variety of industries and countries. Her work comprises property acquisition and development finance, corporate acquisition finance and general corporate lending, in which context she advises on all aspects of bilateral and syndicated finance and guarantee, security and inter-creditor issues. Sarah also has considerable experience of acting on restructuring and enforcements.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Sarah Stace

Director & Head of Private Client Finance

Beck Fitzgerald

Sarah Stanton

Sarah Stanton has been qualified as a solicitor for more than 25 years and has specialised in medical negligence and personal injury throughout that time. She now practise exclusively in the field of medical negligence from our Richmond office. Her clients are based throughout the country and Is happy to see clients at home, in one of our other offices in Hampshire and London or at another suitable venue. She also act as a Court of Protection Deputy for clients who have received a substantial sum of damages and am also the Legal Aid lead for the firm. Sarah's cases involve injuries of maximum severity and include brain injuries acquired at birth or as a result of infection. In 2014 she succeeded in a lengthy High Court trial and obtained substantial compensation for a client who lost her sight as a result of delayed diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis. In 2017 she obtained over £million for a former vet who sustained serious neurological injuries as a result of delay in diagnosis of Cauda Equina Syndrome. She also have an interest in cases arising from gynaecological surgery, colo- rectal surgery and delayed diagnosis of cancer. Her clients have life changing injuries and it is my role to guide them through the litigation process and to obtain maximum compensation as they nearly always need care and support in the future and are often unable to work. Her experience is that clients seeking redress for clinical negligence are often looking for much more than compensation and often want answers and to ensure that medical mistakes do not happen again.

Moore Barlow

Sarah Steed

Sarah specialises in commercial and procurement law, both within the construction sector and in other industries. Her experience has been acquired both within central government and in private practice and includes both contentious and non-contentious areas of practice. Within the construction and engineering sector, she assists on complex contract incorporation and interpretation issues, on final and interim account disputes, and on issues relating to delay and disruption, loss, and expense. Outside of the construction context, Sarah has a breadth of experience advising on general commercial disputes, as well as considerable experience advising central government on contractual and procurement law issues in relation to major outsourcing projects across a broad range of sectors.

Keystone Law

Sarah Stewart

Partner in the Aviation department. Sarah is an English solicitor who has specialised in death and injury aviation claims since 2006. She was previously named by The Times as Lawyer of the Week in recognition of her work representing the families of the Shoreham Airshow Disaster. Sarah is instructed in complex claimant aviation litigation in the UK and abroad, and described by the leading legal directories as a “brilliant lawyer”, “vastly experienced” and “a delight to work with”. Sarah is an APIL accredited fatal accident specialist lawyer and acts for bereaved families and survivors of aviation accidents in civil claimsThe claims she handles often involve jurisdictional arguments, issues of foreign law and the application of international conventions. She has acted in major air disasters and fatal helicopter and light aircraft accidents in the UK, Europe and worldwide. She supports families through official accident investigations and coroner’s inquests. Highlights of Sarah's career include: Acting for passengers onboard Singapore Airlines who were seriously injured in severe turbulence in May 2024. Acting for bereaved families and passengers onboard Precision Air, which crashed into Lake Victoria in 2022. Acting for the family of Leicester City Football Club Chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in their fatal accident product liability claim arising out of a private helicopter crash at the LCFC ground in 2018 and the coroner’s inquest. Acting for the families of the Shoreham Airshow disaster in both their civil claims and the inquest. Acting for the claimant in the landmark case of Rogers v Hoyle in which the Court of Appeal held that air accident investigation reports produced by the Department of Transport are admissible in civil proceedings.

Stewarts Law LLP

Sarah Swift

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Sarah Taylor

Sarah is a specialist regulatory lawyer with extensive experience of supporting clients in relation to enforcement and compliance. Sarah’s health and safety practice involves advice in the aftermath of workplace accidents and representation in the course of investigations and prosecutions by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities nationwide. She advises on food safety and hygiene matters, including use-by dates and pest control, and on food labelling requirements where she supports the bringing of new products to market. Sarah is also experienced in relation to consumer protection, product safety and the management of age-restricted sales. In respect of advertising and marketing, she advises on the compliance of copy with the Advertising Codes and on complaints taken up by the Advertising Standards Authority. In her non-contentious practice, she advises on the adequacy of policies and procedures and provides training on responsibility and accountability in the operational line. Sarah advises across sectors with a particular focus on retail and food manufacturing businesses. Sarah has Higher Rights of Audience in the Criminal Courts and appears regularly in the Magistrates’ Courts and at Coroner’s Inquests into work-related deaths.

Keystone Law

Sarah Taylor

Sarah is a licensing and hospitality expert with over 13 years’ experience advising businesses and individuals on all aspects of licensing law, licensing strategy and the impact of insolvency upon licensed premises. She has particular expertise in contentious licensing applications and has repeatedly obtained new premises licences and extended hours within challenging Cumulative Impact Zones across the UK, including premises licences for large-scale developments within central London. Throughout her career, Sarah has developed relationships with many of the statutory authorities which often results in expedited and pragmatic solutions to allow licences to be granted. Where a hearing becomes necessary, she represents clients at hearings before Licensing Sub-Committees across the country. Sarah represents a wide range of clients including national pub and restaurant operators, hotels, entertainment and live music venues, nightclubs, café chains, landlords and developers.

Keystone Law

Sarah Teal

Sarah Teal is a partner in the Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team. Sarah represents banks, asset based lenders and other financiers, restructuring and turnaround professionals, directors and management teams, and advises on all issues arising in financially stressed situations. Sarah regularly advises boards on directors' duties in the context of doubtful solvency and has been involved in a number of large scale confidential restructurings (particularly in the retail and healthcare sectors). Sarah also has substantial contentious experience including antecedents transactions, wrongful trading and misfeasance actions which have resulted in a number of reported cases. Sarah has worked on a number of high profile assignments, including - The Debenhams CVA challenge, Rococo chocolates, Oddbins, Burdens, Monarch Aircraft Engineering, Manchester House, Artisan, American Golf, Mark Wilkinson Furniture, Smallbone, Fresh to Store, Lotus F1 and Barratts. In addition, Sarah has assisted a number of retailers with CVA's, including Poundstretcher, Jigsaw and Moss Bros. Sarah is joint head of Shoosmiths’ Manchester office alongside Debra Cooper, and is responsible for the firm’s contribution to, and profile within, the local business community.

Shoosmiths LLP

Sarah Tedstone

Partner

Fieldfisher

Sarah Temperley

Sarah has over 30 years' experience of all types of employers and public liability work. Based in the Manchester office she handles a wide variety of employers' liability claims for insurers and self-insured, mainly public bodies. Sarah deals with all types of claims that emanate from public bodies including social services claims, data breach claims and property damage claims. Sarah has a special interest in claims involving Human Rights Act issues. Areas of speciality: Co-ordination of catastrophic claims – including tree fatalities DoLs claims Human trafficking and modern slavery Failure to protect claims involving CSE Historic abuse claims Teacher assaults Sarah works closely with her clients’ insurance departments, social care departments and legal services. Sarah has delivered training and seminars on all aspects of her practice.

Weightmans LLP