Sarah Prager KC

Travel: International Personal Injury

Sarah specialises in cross border and travel law claims, including claims under the Package Travel Regulations, the Athens and Montreal Conventions, and at common law. She has a particular expertise in jurisdictional challenges and in conflicts of law and has been involved in many of the most challenging recent jurisdictional challenges in the High Court.

Sarah's recent work includes High Court and Court of Appeal decisions involving interpretation of the recast Brussels Convention and the meaning of residence, the validity of service outside the jurisdiction, and the interpretation of the Package Travel Regulations. She is also involved in a number of ongoing very high value claims, many of which involve fatalities or catastrophic injuries, often governed by foreign applicable law.

Sarah is Chairman of the Travel and Tourism Lawyers’ Association, was a member of the Consultative Group of Experts to the UNWTO Committee for the Development of an International Code for the Protection of Tourists, and has been co-opted to the Admiralty Court Users’ Committee as a representative of the personal injury Bar. She is a member of the Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers and of the domestic Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

Sarah co-authors Saggerson on Travel Law and regularly contributes to publications produced internationally by the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies. She also edits the chapter of the Encyclopaedia of Insurance Law relating to the Motor Insurers' Bureau.

Sarah is a certified scuba diver and uses this expertise professionally.