Brick Court Chambers

Sarah Love is a leading junior who specialises in competition, regulatory and administrative law. She has been ranked in the leading directories continuously, for several years, in the fields of Competition Law, Administrative Law and Telecommunications. She is also gaining increasing recognition for her work in the Life Sciences/Pharmaceuticals and FRAND spheres. Sarah won Competition Junior of the Year in the 2023 Legal 500 Bar Awards.

Since joining Chambers in 2007, Sarah has appeared in several of the leading cases in her fields of specialism.

Sarah joined the Attorney General's Panels of Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2010 and progressed to the A Panel, of which she was a member from 2020 to 2025. She is called to the Bar of Ireland. She has acted for and advised a wide range of clients, including government departments, public authorities, trade associations, companies, charities and individuals.

Called 2006, Middle Temple; tenant Brick Court Chambers 2007 to date; member of the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown 2010 to date. Previously a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Publications of note include: Robertson A, Lester M, Love S, ‘Judicial review in the United Kingdom of Competition and State Aid Decisions’ (2007) ECLR; Love S, ‘The Merger Action Group Case’ (2009) CLJ; contribution to Brealey QC, Green QC (general eds), ‘Competition Litigation, UK Practice and Procedure’ (OUP, 2010); and Blakeley R, Knight C, Love S, The New Tribunals Handbook (Bloomsbury Professional, 2011).

Reasonable French, basic Spanish.

Bar Pro Bono Unit; Free Representation Unit; Bar European Group (Phoenicia Scholar, 2007); ALBA; HRLA; ARDL; Combar and South Eastern Circuit.

Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2002 BA Hons Philosophy, Politics and Economics, First Class Hons, 1st in year); Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2002-03); City University (2005 Graduate Diploma in Law, Distinction, 1st in year); BPP Law School (2006 Bar Vocational Course, Outstanding); King’s College London (2006 Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law).