Sadie Crapper

Practice Areas

Sadie is a recognised expert in injury and police law work.

Personal injury: Sadie is a Silk-in-waiting who acts as sole Counsel in multi-million pound catastrophic injury cases including those concerning brain and spinal cord injuries, and amputation. She acts for claimants and defendants alike, bringing critical legal analysis and sharp attention to detail to her work. Whilst many of Sadie’s PI cases settle via ADR, she thrives in trial where she has been appearing against Silks for some time: Everett v Dyer [2019] EWHC 2049 (QB).

Sadie is specialist fraud counsel having acted in Summers v Fairclough Homes, and the significant cases which followed including Fari v Homes for Haringey, Atwal v Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, and Sumegi v Gate Gourmet. Sadie is often retained to advise and act in committal proceedings like Atwal and North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Trust v Burnell-Chambers.

Clinical negligence: Sadie’s claimant work includes delayed diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity, consent and neglect claims, and cases involving patients with profound learning disabilities. Sadie’s defendant practice lays emphasis on cauda equina, surgical complications and claims about which there is a fraud concern.

Police law: Sadie is acting Counsel to the Police Federation in the Police Overtime Claims Litigation. For over 10 years’ Sadie has been leading junior counsel dealing with over 1,500 claim for overtime and allowances following the Court of Appeal decision in her case of Allard v CC of Devon and Cornwall Police [2015] EWCA Civ 42; [2015] WLR(D) 45.