Sarah Moore
Associate solicitor
Areas of Practice:
“You have obviously changed my life for ever, I don't know how I can ever thank you and your firm enough for that. I am forever grateful. It has been such a pleasure dealing with you through this whole process.”
– David Tickell, thalidomide client
“She's very bright and very good at getting on top of some of the complex detail and literature. She has a very good analytical brain.”
– Chambers and partners 2019
Associate solicitor, Sarah is a practitioner with 12 years PQE. Sarah attended Cambridge University and trained with City Firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Paris.
Sarah has been heavily involved in high profile group litigation against British corporations both in the UK and overseas; notable cases include representing Colombian farmers against BP and citizens of Abidjan against UK registered company Trafigura.
More recently Sarah has specialised in product liability group actions and has been credited in Legal 500 2017 as ‘outstandingly bright and phenomenally hardworking’.
She has successfully represented clients seeking compensation for historic Thalidomide injuries and over the last 5 years has played a key role in the DePuy Pinnacle Metal on Metal Hip Group Litigation. The Pinnacle litigation resulted in a 14 week Trial in the High Court, concluding in January 2018.
Sarah in the news:
Power to the people: Sarah Moore reviews the current state of product liability in the Uk and asks: is it time for a consumer revolution? NLJ 27.4.18
Lies, damned lies? Political and product liability New Law Journal 15.7.16 Sarah Moore highlights what politicians and toothpaste do not have in common
A bitter pill New Law Journal 12.2.15 Are “Big Pharma” & voluntary codes ending the Dark Age of industry bias, asks Sarah Moore
Medical devices: new isn’t always better Solicitors Journal 27.1.15
Where there’s smoke…Will the issues of e-cigarettes & plain packaging re-ignite tobacco litigation, asks Sarah Moore New Law Journal 16.5.14
A bitter pill to swallow: what impact will the new European Medical Device Regulations have on UK medicine New Law Journal 28.2.14
Challenging the food giants in the Solicitors Journal 9.4.13
Time for a litigation supplement? Sarah Moore exposes some regulatory deficiencies in the world of vitamins & supplements New Law Journal 11.10.13
Related blog posts
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Product liability solicitor, Sarah Moore, discusses the developments that have happened since French regulator ANSM recommended a permanent ban on the sale of Allergan implants.
10 June 2019
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Consumer safety solicitor, Sarah Moore, discusses whether the MHRA are doing enough to protect patients from potential harm following reports linking Allergan breast implants to a rare form of cancer.
13 March 2019
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Will there be more strikes at UK universities this autumn wonders consumer solicitor Sarah Moore.
23 August 2018
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Consumer solicitor Sarah Moore discusses student debt and mental health challenges faced by some students
23 August 2018
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A Freedom of Information request from The Sun newspaper has revealed the spending of a number of univerisites, some of which may come as a shock to students who are fighting for refunds as a result of strike action.
13 August 2018
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‘The Bleeding Edge’, a US documentary from directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, will be released on Netflix on 27 July 2018. Through a series of hard-hitting case studies, the documentary explores the human cost of the longstanding tension, at the heart of the medical device industry, between maximizing profits whilst, in theory at least, also maximizing patient well-being.
27 July 2018
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‘The Consumer Rights Act means that students’ are empowered to demand their rights to compensation rather than form a queue for ‘means tested’ charity’.
5 July 2018
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Following the strike action earlier this year resulting in the cancellation of lectures and seminars across the UK, students need more than a free gown at graduation to compensate for the weeks of education missed
4 July 2018