Sasha Barton

Practice Areas

Sasha specialises in public and private law challenges against state bodies, with a particular interest in serious privacy breaches by state and other bodies, challenging the police for failures to investigate crimes and to protect vulnerable victims of sexual violence, challenging the police and CPS over serious disclosure failures and cases involving other human rights violations.

Career

Commission for Racial Equality 2002-05, Trained at Hodge Jones & Allen, Admitted May 2009, Associate July 2013, Senior Associate November 2014, Partner May 2016

Professional Memberships

• Discrimination Law Association

• Police Action Lawyers Group

• Legal Reference Group for the Centre for Women’s Justice

Publications

‘Common Ground: Equality, good race relations and sites for Gypsies and Irish Travellers’ (Report of a CRE inquiry in England and Wales) 2006; LAG publication ‘Gypsy and Traveller Law’ (Race Discrimination chapter in first and second editions)