Sara Ibrahim > Gatehouse Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Gatehouse Chambers
1 Lady Hale Gate, Gray’s Inn
WC1X 8BS
England

Work Department

Commercial litigation, Professional liability, Education

Position

Sara is recognised as a leading junior for professional negligence and employment and is noted to have ‘exemplary’ legal knowledge as well as being ‘switched on to the needs of the end client’ (Legal 500). She has a wide ranging practice and is able to advise on complex discrimination claims as well as employee competition issues and director disputes. Sara is on the panel of counsel for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

Sara has been shortlisted for the Professional Negligence junior of the year by Legal 500 (2022).

She is sought after to provide assistance in matters with an international element, including other common law jurisdictions such as the Caribbean and Gibraltar. Sara appeared recently in the Privy Council on the matter of Gordon v Havener (Antigua and Barbuda) [2021] UKPC 26 which clarified the law of proprietary estoppel.

Sara has a keen interest in emerging areas of law that intersect with her practice areas such as Artificial Intelligence.

She is a founder member of Bar Standards Board Race Equality Task Force and is a trainer for the Bar Council’s introduction to race course.

Memberships

  • ELBA
  • ELA
  • COMBAR
  • PNBA
  • LCLCBA
  • ELAS

Education

BA History, University of Cambridge

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Employment

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5

Sara IbrahimGatehouse Chambers

London Bar > Professional negligence

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5

Sara IbrahimGatehouse Chambers ‘Sara is extremely thorough, thoughtful and friendly. She has innate empathy for the predicament of a client and the skill to transfer that into well-honed legal argument in their favour.’