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Ms Sara Wyeth
Work Department
Crime
Position
Sara Wyeth is an established barrister specialising in criminal law.
Sara is regularly instructed to prosecute and defend in the most serious cases, including murder, grievous bodily harm with intent, firearms, sexual offending, and drugs.
Sara is particularly skilled at handling cases which involve vulnerable clients. Sara regularly undertakes cases involving serious sexual offences, including allegations of rape and offences against children. Sara prides herself on providing sensible advice in an approachable manner.
Sara has also been instructed to undertake disclosure reviews in high profile, complex cases. These include the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry and a multi-million pound film investment fraud. Most recently, Sara acted as independent disclosure counsel in the landmark private prosecution, leading to the first conviction for the offence of ‘Controlling and Coercive Behaviour,’ for withholding a religious Jewish divorce (a ‘Get’).
Sara Wyeth is on the CPS Advocates Panel at Level 3. She recently completed a secondment to the Crown Court Unit of the Crown Prosecution Service in the West Midlands, during which she was entrusted to undertake high-level charging decisions involving highly complex investigations and dynamic public interest considerations. These included murder, attempted murder, and serious gang violence.
Sara has successfully represented clients in the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal. She recently appeared for the Appellant in R v Chalk & Chaplin [2022] EWCA Crim 433, which gives comprehensive guidance on the exercise of s.66 of the Courts Act 2003 following Gould.
Sara recently moved to the Midlands, having been a tenant at a leading Legal 500 set in London.
Career
Called to the Bar 2013.
Memberships
Midland Circuit
Criminal Bar Association
Young Fraud Lawyers Association
Education
2013 Bar Professional Training Course, Kaplan Law School (Very Competent)
2012 LL.M (Public International Law), Leiden University (First Class Equiv.)
2011 LL.B (Hons), St Mary’s College, Durham University (Upper Second Class)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sara Wyeth – St Philips Chambers ‘Sara is a calm and measured advocate. Her legal knowledge and written advocacy are sublime. She has exceptional interpersonal skills.’
St Philips Chambers is ‘one of the best set in the West Midlands’, which ‘offers a high-quality service’ across the criminal law space. The team has significant expertise across a wide range of criminal matters, including drug conspiracies, fraud, murder, sexual offences and regulatory crime. Richard Atkins KC is highly adept at handling serious crime and murder matters – he prosecuted a woman for stabbing her mother to death. Jonathan Barker is regularly involved in multi-handed murder cases and currently represented a TikTok personality accused of being part of a group who murdered two men by forcing their cars off the A46 – the prosecution’s case is that the deceased were blackmailing the defendants. Jennifer Josephs successfully appealed a sentence for attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity (the “child” being an undercover police officer posing as one) – at issue was how to approach sentencing for a second similar offence when the law had changed between the first and second convictions. In September 2022, Andrew Smith KC, as was, was appointed as a circuit judge, and in July 2023 Marcus Harry and William Douglas-Jones joined from St Ives Chambers, and in October Rebecca Wade KC, Amy Jackson, Sara Wyeth and Callum Church followed.