Sarah Stanzel

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  • 1999 Called to the Bar, Inner Temple

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Profile

Sarah practises exclusively employment law. Her clients include Claimants and Respondents and she has recently appeared before Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal. She undertakes both advocacy and advisory work and accepts instructions on a direct public access basis.

Her languages include German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and in recent years she has undertaken work placements with Mayer Brown (Frankfurt), Hammonds Hausmann (Paris), Hammonds Rossotto (Rome), Hammonds (Madrid) and Carlos Aguiar, Ferreira de Lima & Associados (Lisbon).

As a result she is able to advise foreign clients based in the UK or abroad in their language and can give initial advice on foreign law, if necessary with the help of her numerous contacts abroad.

Sarah has given seminars to solicitors in the UK and has been invited abroad to give talks to foreign lawyers on English employment law and European law. Recently she has given talks to the Italian and Spanish Employment Lawyers Associations, the European Employment Lawyers Association and the Academy of European Law. 

Sarah regularly undertakes pro bono work, particularly as a volunteer at Latin American House, the French legal advice clinic ("Consultations Gratuites") and Islington Legal Advice Centre. 

 

Experience

Sarah has been instructed in a wide range of employment cases including

- Unfair dismissal
- Discrimination
- Unlawful deductions
- Breach of contract
- TUPE
- Whistleblowing
- Cross-border cases

Significant Cases

Kituma v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2010] EWCA Civ 154
Appeal against striking-off order 

Wacha v Novas Scarman Group Ltd [2010] UKEAT/0229/09
Compliance with statutory appeal procedure

Triggs v GAB Robbins (UK) Ltd [2008] IRLR 317
Compensation for constructive dismissal where illness caused by pre-dismissal breach of contract

 Publications

ELA Briefing Volume 17 Number 6 July 2010, "Restrictive covenants in Europe"

International Talks

Academy of European Law (ERA), Summer Course on European Labour Law, Trier, 5-9 July 2010, "Part-time work, fixed-term employment and temporary agency work"

European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), Annual Conference, Luxembourg, 23-24 April 2010, "Restrictive covenants - cross border aspects"

Asociacion Nacional de Abogados Laboralistas (ASNALA), X Congreso Nacional, Madrid, 27-28 November 2009, "Mesa de Organizacion Profesional"

Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani (AGI), incontro di Formazione Continua, Milan, 20 October 2009, "Licenziamento per motivi organizzativi: profili di diritto comunitario e comparato"

Memberships

Employment Lawyers Association

European Employment Lawyers Association

Qualifications

LLB (London & Paris)

LLM (Wolverhampton, distance learning)