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Ms Sarah Prager KC
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Sarah Prager specialises in travel law claims, including claims under the Package Travel Regulations 1992 and 2018, the Athens and Montreal Conventions, and at common law.
She also has a particular expertise in all aspects of conflict of law and jurisdiction.
Sarah undertakes work in all areas of cross border work, encompassing claims involving issues of private international law, package holidays, international carriage, contractual recovery and cross border clinical negligence, and her caseload reflects this breadth of practice.
Together with her colleagues Matthew Chapman and Jack Harding she co-wrote the most recent editions of Saggerson on Travel Law. Sarah also contributes to publications produced internationally by the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, and most recently contributed chapters to its Collective Commentary on the New Package Travel Directive (ESHTE, 2020, chapters on Article 21 and on transposition into UK law) and to its book Tourism Law in Europe (ESHTE, 2021, chapter on tourism law in the UK).
Sarah was invited to join the Consultative Group of Experts to the UNWTO Committee for the Development of an International Code for the Protection of Tourists; the Code has now been adopted by the UNWTO and is being implemented internationally. She has also been co-opted to the Admiralty Court Users’ Committee as a representative of the personal injury Bar.
Career
Awards
- Global 100, 2023 – Personal Injury Adviser of the Year – UK.
- Personal Injury Advisor of the Year 2022: Global 100 and Lawyer International Legal 100
- Travel Lawyer of the Year 2022: Best Lawyers UK
- Personal Injury Advisor of the Year 2021: Lawyer Monthly Women In Law Awards
Education
- LLB (Hons) Law, Nottingham University 1996
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Aviation
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Sarah Prager KC – Deka Chambers ‘Sarah is outstanding. Very down to earth and personable, so she is very easy to work with. Clients love her sensible and commercial advice.’
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Sarah Prager KC – Deka Chambers ‘Sarah is outstanding, her knowledge of travel law is excellent and she is a formidable advocate.’
The ‘weighty and well experienced team’ at Deka Chambers have ‘stand out’ personal injury strength. Sarah Prager KC was made silk in the 2023 round, and exemplifies the set’s cross border personal injury experience: she appeared in Strait v Cosmos Insurance, a Court of Appeal case concerning whether an RAF serviceman stationed in Akrotiri (a Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus) could bring a personal injury claim against a Cypriot insurer in the English courts. Edward Faulks KC is leading Paul Stagg KC in the case of YXA v Wolverhampton City Council, which considers whether a social services authority assumes responsibility to a child and therefore owes a common law duty of care when exercising protective functions.