Outer Temple Chambers' personal injury offering 'has a huge amount of talent, both at senior and junior levels'. The team continues to advise on high-value, complex catastrophic injury claims, fatal accident matters and litigation involving psychiatric injuries. The set is also well known for its expertise in handling Animals Act cases. Sarah Crowther KC is very experienced in advising on large-scale, asbestos-related personal injury claims, and routinely represents claimants and defendants before the High Court. Ian Denham is 'a tenacious negotiator and a very talented counsel', with a solid track record in handling complex fatal accident claims. Recent developments at the set include Harry Lambert joining the team and Ben Bradley KC being appointed to silk in February and March 2025 respectively.
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Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Public Law, Employment and Discrimination, Sports Law
Position
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Public Law, Employment and Discrimination, Clinical Negligence, Sports Law.
Career
Year of Call - 1999; Silk in 2018.
Sarah Crowther KC has a broad practice with areas of focus in personal injury, private international law, clinical negligence and public law and discrimination cases.
Sarah has experience in all claims for injury, illness or accident with an international element, including advising on European law issues especially concerning the EU Motor Insurance Directives and disputes over jurisdiction and applicable law. She has appeared in recent high-profile cases in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and is experienced in working with expert evidence of foreign law and handling claims to which foreign law applies.
Regularly acting for both claimants and defendants, Sarah balances a “commercial approach” with a “compassionate nature”.
Sarah’s public and human rights law practice, founded on her experience of constitutional human rights appeals to the Privy Council, focuses on discrimination, supply of goods and services and employment. She has appeared at all levels from employment tribunal to the Supreme Court in such cases.
Sarah has acted in several of the leading cases on religious rights discrimination, including representing Christian hoteliers who refused to supply a same-sex couple with a double-bedded room due to conflict with their religious belief. She is currently appearing in Ashers v Lee concerning whether Christian owners of a bakery can lawfully be required to ice a cake with a message promoting same-sex marriage.
Sarah’s clinical negligence work includes birth injury, spinal cord injury and fatal claims. She has appeared successfully at trial in claims concerning consent to treatment following the Montgomery decision and regularly advises on complex breach and causation issues involving multiple expert disciplines.
Her broader personal injury practice encompasses catastrophic injury, road traffic, insurance, employer’s liability, sport and asbestos-related illness claims. Sarah acts at High Court level for claimants and defendants.
Sarah is recognised in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for her expertise in Travel Law, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.
Sarah played hockey for Cambridge University and Richmond HC, these days is a sporting spectator, including of Blackburn Rovers and Lancashire CCC. Sarah speaks German and some French.
Languages
French, German.
Memberships
- Bar Council Member
- South Eastern Circuit Committee Member
- PIBA
- ELBA
- Women in Sports Law
- BASL
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- 'Paul Barton is always available and able to work magic with diaries. A very smooth operator.'
- 'Paul Barton and Graham Woods are very efficient.'
- 'Graham Woods is superb.'
- 'Paul Barton, Graham Woods and Harry Gamble are all excellent and they will do their utmost to assist.'
- 'Outer Temple Chambers are one of the best if not the best for taking equine related personal injury claims.'
- 'Chambers has an enviable reputation for specialist PI counsel at all levels from juniors to seniors.'
- 'A very strong set. Their ability to handle complex and sophisticated matters with sensitivity and confidence is the primary reason for selecting Outer Temple counsel.'
- 'Outer Temple is a brilliant set.'