Sarah is regularly instructed in judicial review matters in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on immigration, asylum, and children’s rights. She has acted in several high-profile public law challenges, including:

• acting for the claimant (VT) in a challenge to his proposed transfer from a prison in the British Indian Ocean Territory under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1884 (led by Helen Law);
• acting for Reunite Families UK in a challenge to the increase to the minimum income requirement for family visas (led by Raza Husain KC);
• acting for lead claimants in the challenge to the use of RAF Wethersfield to accommodate asylum seekers (led by Angus McCullough KC and Shu Shin Luh) – TG and Ors v SSHD [2025] EWHC 596 (Admin);
• acting for an individual claimant (ASM) in the challenge to the Rwanda removal policy before the Supreme Court (led by Richard Drabble KC) – AAA v SSHD [2023] UKSC 42;
• acting for various claimants in challenges to their designation as Group 2 refugees (led by Alex Goodman KC);
• acting for Asylum Aid in the challenge to the Rwanda removal policy (led by Charlotte Kilroy KC) – AAA v SSHD [2023] EWCA Civ 745; and
• acting for Freedom from Torture in the challenge to the refugee ‘pushback’ policy (led by Raza Husain KC).

Sarah has also advised on judicial review proceedings arising from the conduct of UK armed forces overseas.

Sarah’s immigration practice covers all areas of asylum and immigration law, including appeals to the First-Tier and Upper Tribunals and judicial review proceedings. She regularly appears in complex asylum and human rights claims, including on behalf of victims of trafficking, victims of torture, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, and persons with serious mental health diagnoses. She has a particular interest in family reunification claims.

Sarah is also regularly instructed in claims challenging the unlawful use of detention powers under the Immigration Acts and related damage claims. She is currently instructed on behalf of a large group of claimants in relation to their detention at Manston House Short-Term Holding Facility during the “humanitarian crisis” in 2022 (led by Laura Dubinsky KC).  

Prior to the Bar, Sarah worked as a Refugee Legal Advisor in Egypt and Greece, where she advised asylum seekers on refugee status determination and family reunification processes, and as a Research Assistant to Jason Pobjoy, author of The Child in International Refugee Law and co-author of the upcoming edition of the Law of Refugee Status.

Sarah regularly delivers talks and seminars on asylum-related issues in various forums. Previous engagements include the IPLA Annual Conference and the No Walls podcast in an episode entitled The UK’s Response to Ukraine. 

Sarah has expertise in public international law with a focus on international human rights law. Her work in these areas includes:

• member of the international legal team for Jimmy Lai (British citizen, prominent pro-democracy activist and publisher, imprisoned in Hong Kong) and Sebastien Lai (led by Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC);
• advising a former state hostage on potential means of redress, including via the UN Special Procedures and ICJ;
• advising an NGO on potential legal challenges—at the regional and international levels—to colonial-era “buggery” laws;
• advising the Centre for Women’s Justice on the UK’s obligations to investigate and prosecute sexual violence against black and other ethnic minority women under international law;
• assisting Counsel for the Government of Mauritius (Philippe Sands KC and Remi Reichhold) in the Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, 2020); and
• co-authoring the Joint Opinion on the compliance of the UK government’s Nationality and Borders Bill with the UK’s international legal obligations (with Raza Husain KC, Jason Pobjoy, and Eleanor Mitchell). 

Sarah is a rostered Trial Monitor with TrialWatch, a joint project of the American Bar Association and the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which monitors criminal trials of vulnerable defendants worldwide. 

Prior to the Bar, Sarah worked as a research assistant for Jennifer Robinson, including in relation to complaints to the UN Special Rapporteurs, an intervention before the International Court of Justice, and a range of advisory projects.

Sarah is instructed on behalf of the bereaved families and a survivor in the Cranston Inquiry, which is investigating the events of 24 November 2021, when at least 27 people died crossing the Channel.

Sarah has previously been instructed in the Grenfell Inquiry and Infected Blood Inquiry.

University of Oxford 

• Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) (LLM equivalent), 2019

• MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Distinction), 2018

• Rhodes Scholarship (Australia-at-Large & University, 2017)

• Prize for Best Thesis (MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies)

• Eden Palestine Fellowship

• Frederick Mulder Fund (Social Justice)

Australian National University 

• Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours), Bachelor of Arts (International Relations), 2016

• Valedictorian Speaker (College of Law)

• UNHCR Prize for Refugee Law 

• LexisNexis Prize for Chinese Law 

• National Merit Scholarship (Top 1% nationally)