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St Ives Chambers Offices
St Ives Chambers
1-3 WHITTALL STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B4 6DH
England
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Miss Sara Wyeth
Work Department
Sara Wyeth is a barrister specialising in Criminal Law.
Position
Year of Call: 2013
Career
Sara prosecutes and defends in the Crown Court and is regularly instructed across the most serious of cases, including murder and serious violence, sexual offences, drug offences, and financial crime.
Sara is on the CPS Advocates Panel at Level 3. She recently completed a secondment to the Crown Court Unit of the Crown Prosecution Service (West Midlands), during which she was entrusted to undertake high-level charging decision involving complex investigations and dynamic public interest considerations. These included murder and serious gang violence.
Sara recently moved to St Ives Chambers, having been a tenant at a leading Legal 500 set in London.
Notable recent instructions
R v Chalk & Chaplin [2022] EWCA Crim 43 – Court of Appeal for the Appellant in appeal against sentence relating to grooming offences where the victim was an undercover police officer; case gives comprehensive guidance following Gould on the exercise of s 66 Courts Act 2003
Operation Arke (2022 ongoing) – led junior in a multi-handed drug trafficking case
Operation Baritone (2022 ongoing) – led junior in a multi-handed conspiracy to murder
R v P (2022 ongoing) – junior alone defending a client accused of multiple counts of sexual activity with children
R v L (2022 ongoing) – junior alone defending a client accused of money laundering just under a million pounds
M v M (2022) – disclosure counsel in a private prosecution leading to the first conviction for ‘controlling and coercive behaviour’ including the withholding of a religious divorce
Memberships
The Midlands Circuit
The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Criminal Bar Association
Education
BPTC, Kaplan Law School, London
LL.M in Public International Law, Leiden University
LL.B (Hons), Durham University (St Mary’s College)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sara Wyeth – St Ives Chambers ‘Sara is unflappable, measured, and bright. She is extremely bright, and succinct in her submissions. She endears herself to judge and jury very easily.’