Sarah Lee’s Public Law CV

Degree

First Class Honours in Jurisprudence Finals, BCL, Oxford

Practice Profile

Sarah Lee has particular experience in relation to judicial reviews with an EU element. She has recently appeared in R (ota) Mabanaft v BERR, which involved a challenge in the High Court to BERR's oil stocking regulations, and in the High Court and Court of Appeal in R (ota) Federation of Tour Operators v HM Treasury, which involved a challenge to an increase to air passenger duty introduced in the 2007 budget.

Her practice also includes advising on and appearing in challenges to pharmaceutical products licensing decisions, as in R v Secretary of State for Health ex parte Generics UK Ltd, and judicial reviews involving points of EU law, as in R (ota) Yvonne Watts v Secretary of State for Health.

Sarah Lee 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.

Important cases

  • 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)
  • 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)

Publications

Chapter on Commercial Agents for Practitioners' Handbook of EC Law (Trenton Publishing, 1988)

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