Sarah's practise involves regulatory and criminal law matters.  

She has experience in cases involving allegations of: murder, fraud, foreign bribery, market manipulation and cartel offences, workplace safety breaches, medical professional misconduct, unprofessional conduct, conspiracy offences, drug importation, terrorism, bullying and sexual offending.  

Sarah has been briefed extensively to defend and prosecute charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.  She has acted for AHPRA including for the Medical Board, Nursing and Midwifery Board and the Veterinary Board.  She has extensive experience in relation to commissions of inquiry, acting for individuals and organisations.  In 2017 she was briefed to act for Jetsar. In 2016 Sarah appeared for a former Secretary of the Department of Education (DET) in an inquiry by the Independent Broad Based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) into allegations of corrupt conduct at the DET.  In 2015 she appeared as junior counsel for the DET in a seperate inquiry by IBAC into allegations of corrupt conduct.  In 2014 Sarah was briefed as junior counsel assisting IBAC in its first public hearings into allegations of corrupt conduct at PTV. 

Sarah is regularly briefed to conduct investigations within organisations including in relation to allegations of bullying and of a sexual nature.  Sarah is particularly interested in the interaction between criminal law and corporate governance and regulatory contraventions.  She provides advice in relation to ASIC litigation, including strategies for compulsory interviews under s19 ASIC Act 2001 and Banning Order hearings under s920A Corporations Act 2001. She was briefed in relation to ASIC's investigation into Bank Bill Swap Rate practices.  

Sarah has provided advice to Government Departments and Statutory Authorities. She is on the Victoria Legal Aid Preferred Trial Counsel List and has been granted an Indictable Crime Certificate.

Sarah is an accredited advocacy coach and teaches at the Victorian Bar Readers Course. She has also taught advocacy on a number of occasions at the Legal Training Institute, Papua New Guinea, as part of a program facilitated by the Victorian Bar and AusAid. 

Prior to signing the Bar Roll Sarah was Associate to the Honourable Justice Curtain in the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Some of Sarah's cases include: 

• Commonwealth prosecution of alleged cartel offences (ongoing)
• Investigation into the conduct of the former Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle (2018) (led by Ian Freckleton QC)
• Investigation into whether conduct constituted bullying relating to a National Sport (2017)
• Operation Lansdowne, IBAC, briefed to act for Jetstar (2017)
• Operation Dunham, IBAC, briefed to act for a former Secretary, Department of Education and Training (2017)
• Trevor Yates & Ors v The Queen [2017] VSCA 188 (validity of a controlled operations Authority under s15GK(1)(f) Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) (led by Paul Holdenson QC)
• DPP v Downer EDI Works Pty Ltd [Nos 2 and 4] [2017] VSCA 27 (validity of charges - whether 'necessity' under s21(1)&(2)(e) OHS Act must be particularised) (led by Michael Tovey QC)
• DPP V Daing [2016] VSCA 58 (Murder, appeal)
• DPP v Daing [2015] VSC 440 (Murder)
• Operation Fiztory, IBAC, counsel assisting the Commissioner (2014)
• Lydgate (A Pseudonym) v R (2014) 46 VR 78 (Case stated - interpretation of 'care supervision or authority' under ss48 and 49 Crimes Act 1958)
• DPP v FJL (2014) 41 VR 572 (Interlocutory appeal against grant of permanent stay)
• Dragojlovic v DPP (2013) 40 VR 71 (Appeal - whether length of trial and presentation of evidence created a real risk that the jury failed to give a verdict according to the evidence) (led by Nick Robinson QC)
• DPP v FM (2013) 233 A Crim R 83 (Interlocutory appeal - interpretation of ‘online offences’ in the Criminal Code)
• DPP v Justin Hill [2012] VSC 353 (Murder)
• DPP v Hutton [2011] VSC 484 (Manslaughter)
• DPP v Benbrika (Ruling No 3) (2011) 216 A Crim R 96 (Terrorism - permanent stay of trial)