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Sarah Przybylska
Position
Sarah Przybylska’s work encompasses advice and advocacy across professional discipline, fraud, crime, and public law.
Notable recent instructions include prosecuting the double jeopardy killer Dennis McGrory, convicted of rape and murder after his acquittal in 1975; and representing clinicians at the Infected Blood Inquiry, Thirlwall Inquiry and the inquests into the deaths of patients of Ian Paterson.
Sarah is instructed as leading counsel and as junior to King’s Counsel, as well as to act alone. She has a reputation for excellent advocacy backed up by careful preparation and a keen intellect. She provides training to professionals including medical and dental experts and investigators. She advises individuals and corporations across all of her practice areas in sensitive, urgent and high profile matters.
Recently recognised as Crime Junior of the Year in Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024.
Career
Year of Call 2006
Memberships
- Recorder: South Eastern Circuit 2022
- Junior Treasury Counsel 2020
- ATC Advocacy Trainer
- Grade 4 CPS Prosecutor
- CPS Serious Crime Group Specialist Panel Level 4
- CPS Rape Panel
- CPS Terrorism Panel Level 3
- Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers
- Criminal Bar Association
- Health & Safety Lawyers’ Association
- Fraud Lawyers Association
Education
Kings College, Cambridge (Classics, first class).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Sarah Przybylska – 2 Hare Court ‘Sarah is one of the truly outstanding junior prosecuting counsel. She stands out for her ability to master a great deal of material in unflappable manner, always efficiently and with clarity. She is very easy to deal and is as good on her feet as she is on paper.’
2 Hare Court is widely praised as one of the ‘premier sets for serious and general crime’ with ‘superb barristers from pupils to silks’. Gudrun Young KC, ‘brilliant with strategy and with detail‘, recently defended , a woman with no previous convictions due to start an MA in theology in Cambridge, charged with murdering her fiance after running him over in her car following an argument between the pair at a party in Cheshire; she was convicted and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 18 years. Madeleine Wolfe is a sexual offences specialist with particular expertise in cases involving children and vulnerable adults, while Sarah Przybylska is a standout prosecutor with recent experience handling high-profile murder and sex trafficking cases, including several at the Old Bailey. Sallie Bennett-Jenkins KC is widely known as ‘one of the most gifted barristers at the Bar’ – her broad practice covers complex sexual offences cases – she recently defended a counsellor accused by a patient of sexual assault, with the trial turning on detailed analysis of certain therapeutic methods and whether these can reasonably be considered sexual assault.
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Sarah Przybylska –2 Hare Court ‘Sarah is a very talented advocate.’