Legal System:
Common Law
Practice Areas:
Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Finance - Banking, Information - Communication Technologies, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Sales - Purchases, Other
Jurisdiction:
Australia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Education
University of Nottingham, 1997 - First Class Honours, LLB (Law with European Law), including a year spent at Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany (awarded JC Smith Prize for Evidence, Law Graduates’ Association Prize for best graduating student, and Sweet and Maxwell Prize, 1997)
Nottingham Law School, 1997-1998: Legal Practice Course, distinction (top 5% of year)
Kings College University, London, 2003: post-graduate certificate in Sports Law
Legal Profession Admission Board, NSW, 2009: Real Estate Law and Australian Constitutional Law (LexisNexis prize awarded for Constitutional Law)
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia), 2011: Fastrack to Fellowship
Other Information
Sarah is an experienced disputes lawyer, having spent 14 years in private practice with an international firm, before accepting a senior role at a major arbitral institution. She joined Arbitration Chambers in November 2020 and, over the last few years, has built her experience as arbitrator, sitting as sole, co- and presiding arbitrator in arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, SIAC, DIAC, LCIA and HKIAC, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations.
