Sarah Love

Sarah Love practises in all of Chambers' areas of work and is particularly interested in competition, regulatory and administrative law. Before coming to the Bar, she studied postgraduate economics and government at Harvard and was a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Sarah joined Chambers in 2007 after completing pupillage and has since appeared in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the Information Tribunal, the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) and many county courts.

Sarah has acted for and advised a wide range of clients, including government departments, public authorities, trade associations, public and private companies, charities and individuals. She undertakes pro bono work regularly. Sarah's previous and current cases include:

• Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc & others [2009] UKSC 6 - acted for the OFT in the ‘test case' on the fairness of unarranged overdraft charges (with Jonathan Crow QC, Jemima Stratford QC and Richard Coleman)
• Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Limited [2009] EWHC 1681 (Ch) - acted for the OFT in its successful case against Foxtons concerning the fairness of clauses in its contracts with landlords (with Nicholas Green QC and Helen Davies QC)
• Competition Commission v BAA Limited [2010] EWCA Civ 1097 - acted for Ryanair, in support of the Competition Commission's successful appeal against the Competition Appeal Tribunal's judgment quashing the report of the Competition Commission on UK airports (with Daniel Jowell QC)
• Hereward & Foster v Legal Services Commission [2010] EWHC 3370 (Admin) - acted for the LSC resisting a sex discrimination challenge to the scoring criteria for the award of contracts for publicly funded legal services (with Martin Chamberlain)
• Cases 1156-9 & 1170/8/3/10 Virgin Media, Inc & others v Office of Communications - acting for BT in the ‘Pay TV' litigation (with Thomas Plewman and Sarah Ford)

Sarah is a member of the Attorney General's C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.