Personal Injury

Sarah’s Personal Injury practice includes RTA claims, employee claims, occupier’s liability, trips and slips, group litigation, abuse claims, criminal victim claims.  She brings her clinical negligence expertise and experience to bear on complex neurological brain injury, spinal injury, multiple injury claims and prior co-morbidity cases.

Listen to Sarah discuss loss of chance in personal injury cases on LawPod UK here.

Selected Cases

  • SM (By the O.S) v. ASDA (2019):  7 figure settlement acheived in complex high value brain injury claim on behalf of a surviving twin born prematurely after her mother went into labour having slipped and fallen in a supermarket, the other twin being stillborn.
  • Gerald Bentley v North West London Hospital (2017-2019): claim by an 83 year old Parkinson’s sufferer for injuries suffered when an exercise bike collapsed in the physiotherapy department.
  • Winterbourne View Care Inquiry (2013): Instructed on behalf of owner/operator of the home in Group Litigation by various Claimants.
  • Carol Watkins-Protain v Beaulieu Enterprises Limited (2012): Employee claim by the personal assistant, driver and general factotum to Lord and Lady Montague of Beaulieu.
  • Re LM (2011): Successful high value settlement of claim by UK’s best young American footballer shot in a London nightclub, claim creatively pursued against the third party nightclub rather than against the attacker.
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“Sarah Lambert has superb advocacy skills, and is incredibly well prepared and tough.”

Chambers & Partners 2023

“An exceptional barrister.” “She is detail-orientated and driven to achieve the best outcome.”

Chambers & Partners 2023

“She’s great, absolutely on top of all of the detail but very personable with clients and very aware of what’s going on in the market.” “She is excellent – she’s doing cutting-edge work and her approachable and persuasive manner is very impressive.”

Chambers & Partners 2022

Appointments

  • Accredited PICarbs Arbitrator
  • Deputy Costs Judge (Taxing Master) of the Senior Courts Costs Office (2013)
  • Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit (crime 2012) (serious sex offences 2016) (civil 2017)

Awards

  • Gray’s Inn Goldie Scholar

Education

  • Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent)
  • BA Hons, Magdalen College, Oxford
  • Brighton and Hove High School

Memberships

  • PIBA executive committee
  • PNBA
  • South Eastern Circuit

Publications

  • Contributor to the 1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review (QMLR)
  • Contributor to LawPod UK.
  • Contributor to Westlaw online law encyclopaedia
  • Costs entries for Jowitt’s Dictionary of Law
  • Contributor to the Law Society’s Ethics for Advocates Manual
  • Co-author of “Wasted Costs and Costs against Non-Parties” Sweet & Maxwell Personal Injury Handbook
  • Contributing author to “An Introduction to Human Rights and the Common Law”, English & Havers

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