Sarah Lee’s Full CV


Degree

First Class Honours in Jurisprudence Finals, BCL, Oxford

Practice Profile

Sarah Lee is a senior junior practising in the fields of EU law, public law and competition/regulatory law.

Her practice includes both advocacy and advisory work and she is experienced in conducting cases and appearing in a variety of courts and tribunals including the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the Competition Commission, the Court of First Instances and the European Court of Justice. She has been on the Government's Treasury A Panel since 2007 and was a B Panel member prior to that. Her clients include public and private companies and government bodies.

Sarah Lee is currently instructed by BT in relation to challenges to Ofcom's regulatory decisions which are continuing before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Competition Commission. She has also recently been involved in judicial review proceedings on diverse topics such as oil stocking regulations, pharmaceutical products marketing authorisations, air passenger duty, in proceedings before the Court of First Instance relating to Article 81 EC and in number of EU cases before the European Court of Justice.

Areas of Practice

  • European Law
  • Competition Law
  • Public Law

Important cases

European Courts

  • C-455/06 Danske Slagtiere (limitation)
  • C-158/07 Forster (study grant, free movement)
  • C-491/07 Turansky (pending, criminal prosecution, ne bis in idem)
  • C-438/05 Viking (internal market)
  • C-372/04 Watts (healthcare, freedom to provide services)
  • C-466/04 Herrera (healthcare, freedom to provide services)
  • C-46/03 MST II (structural funds, decommitment of grant)
  • C-175/06 Tedesco (judicial assistance)
  • C-143/06 Ludwigs-Apotheke (free movement)
  • C-414/06 Lidl and Stahlwerks Ergste (taxation)
  • T-66/01 ICI Soda Ash II (pending, Article 82)
  • T-246/08, T-332/08, T-390/08 Bank Melli (pending, interim relief, freezing of funds)
  • T-256/07 OMPI III (measures to combat terrorism)
  • T-229/02 PKK (measures to combat terrorism)

UK Courts

  • Mabanaft v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Oil stocking, EC Directive)
  • Federation of Tour Operators v HM Treasury (taxation, freedom to provide services, Article 1 Protocol 1)
  • Watts v Secretary of State for Health (healthcare, freedom to provide services)
  • Merck Sharpe Dohme (pharmaceutical regulation)
  • R -v- Secretary of State for Health, ex parte Generics (UK) Ltd (pharmaceuticals, interim relief)
  • Junttan Oy v Bristol Magistrates Court (health and safety, EC Directive)
  • World Wildlife Fund for Nature v World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (breach of settlement agreement, restitution)
  • Arkin v Borchard Lines (liner conferences, Articles 81 and 82)
  • Betws v DSK (state aid damages claim)
  • Texaco v Heerema, McDermott (cartel case, damages claim)
  • Secretary of State for Health v Norton Healthcare (cartel case)
  • DEFRA -v- Feakins (transactions at an undervalue, tort)
  • Gregory v Turner (procedural)

Competition Appeal Tribunal

  • BT v Ofcom and H3G v Ofcom (mobile call termination appeals, significant market power)
  • BT v Ofcom (carrier pre-selection and wholesale line rental appeals)
  • Freeserve/Wanadoo v Ofcom (broadband pricing, Article 82)

Other

  • ICC arbitrations - involved in a number of confidential commercial arbitrations raising competition law and telecommunications law issues
  • OFT schools investigation  
  • Advisory work for a number of private clients and government departments on a range of matters (e.g. competition law, pharmaceutical regulation, public procurement, structural funds, European law)

Publications

Chapter on Commercial Agents in Practitioners' Handbook of EC Law (Trenton Publishing, 1998)

Chapter on Article 86 EC for Vaughan and Robertson's Encyclopedia of EU Law (Loose leaf, Richmond Law and Tax, published c. 2006)

Further Information

French and German