Sara Ibrahim

Sara appears regularly in the Employment Tribunal (acting for both Claimants and Respondents) as well as the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Discrimination forms a major part of Sara’s employment practice and she has a particular specialism in disability claims and regularly deals with parties who are vulnerable.

In 2019, Sara was re-appointed to the panel of counsel serving the Commission for Equality and Human Rights for a term of 4 years.

Examples of her work include:

• Instructed by a Claimant in a claim against his former employer (major bank) and the pension trustees on a complex claim of indirect disability discrimination and failure to make reasonable adjustments;
• Instructed by a Claimant who was a Director and former employee in relation to a claim of disability discrimination involving issues of Directors’ duties;
• Instructed by a Respondent in response to a claim of disability discrimination involving allegations of direct discrimination and exacerbation of a mental health condition;
• Advising a professional regulator on a complex complaint of race and sex discrimination that spanned a period of over 5 years;
• Instructed on a claim of race discrimination for the Claimant where issues of jurisdiction were raised as the Claimant was working abroad.

She also appears in the High Court in matters including restrictive covenants and associated claims such as misuse of confidential information. Examples of her work include:

• Applying for injunctive relief on behalf of a company where a former employee had indicated he wished to work for a competitor and there was evidence of misuse of confidential information with a commercial value in excess of £1million;
• Replying to an application for injunctive relief where the terms sought would have resulted in new company ceasing to trade;
• Advising a partner on exit from their firm and scope of restrictive covenants in their employment contract.