Sarah Przybylska

Sarah Przybylska’s work encompasses advice and advocacy across professional discipline, fraud, crime, and public law. She was appointed as Treasury Counsel in 2020 and a Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit in Jan 2022.

Notable recent instructions include prosecuting the Finsbury Park mosque attack, the E17 ’night stalker’, the oldest double jeopardy murder yet prosecuted and acting on behalf of the Medical Defence Union at the Infected Blood Inquiry. She recently advised on Jersey’s first ever sex trafficking prosecution, leading to a conviction.

Sarah is instructed as leading counsel and as junior to King’s Counsel, as well as to act alone. She has a reputation for excellent advocacy backed up by careful preparation and a keen intellect. She provides training to professionals including medical and dental experts and investigators.

She has also recently been shortlisted as Crime Junior of the Year in Chambers UK Bar Awards 2022.

Sarah accepts Direct Access instructions.

What others say:

“Very impressive, she has the right combination of tough adversarial skills and the human touch.” – Chambers UK 2023 (Crime)

“Sarah is phenomenally talented and extremely bright. She always has an excellent grasp of her case.” and “She was absolutely brilliant. The right combination of being a tough adversary without losing a human connection.” – Chambers UK 2023 (Professional Discipline)

“She was absolutely brilliant. The right combination of being a tough adversary without losing a human connection.” – Chambers UK 2022

“Sarah is measured and diligent in her approach, demonstrating excellent judgment and advocacy.” – Legal 500 UK 2023 (Professional Discipline)

“Sarah is a very diligent, respectful and hard-working junior.” – Legal 500 UK 2023 (Crime)

“A prodigy who understands the material in a case quickly and explains it to the jury well. Her strengths are her attention to detail and depth of knowledge in criminal law.” – Chambers UK 2022

“Very intelligent, calm, measured.” – Legal 500 UK 2022

“A very experienced junior who has a nice manner in and out of court.” and “Very elegant, calm and measured.” – Chambers UK 2021

“A very good cross-examiner. She is very concise and incisive when questioning witnesses.” – Chambers UK 2021

“An excellent advocate, she is very impressive and makes good judgements in how the case is presented and handles the client, witnesses and the panel well. An excellent choice of counsel.” – Legal 500 UK 2021

“Her cross-examination of one of the defendants was rigorous and detailed, but carried out in an understated but highly effective manner.” – Legal 500 UK 2021

“She is very well prepared, provides prompt and detailed advice and is extremely able in her advocacy. Clients respond well to her.” – Chambers UK 2020

“Ferociously intelligent and fearless. She provides sensible, pragmatic advice and is well liked by corporate clients.” – Chambers UK 2020

“Detail-oriented and has a wonderful manner with clients.” – Legal 500 2020

“Tenacious and firm in advocacy without alienating those who she is addressing.” – Legal 500 2020

“The complete package: devastatingly efficient and effective.” – Legal 500 2019

“Thorough, clear and able to get to grips with complex issues quickly.” – Chambers & Partners 2019

“An excellent lawyer” – Chambers & Partners 2019

“A consummate professional: charming, courteous and engaging to work with.” – Legal 500 2019

“Efficient, brave and committed to achieving the best outcome for her clients. A terrific advocate with a clear, commercial and user-friendly approach to advice. She possesses a talent well beyond her year of call.” – Chambers UK 2018

“Hard-working and highly skilled.” – Chambers UK 2018

“Good on the detail and a team player, she is everything you could want from a junior.” – Chambers UK 2018 “You can’t pull the wool over her eyes.” – Chambers UK 2018

“Efficient, brave and committed to achieving the best outcome for her clients. A terrific advocate with a clear, commercial and user-friendly approach to advice. She possesses a talent well beyond her year of call.” – Chambers UK 2018

“Calm under pressure.” – Chambers UK 2018

“A senior junior with authoritative knowledge of regulatory law; she gets fantastic results.” – Chambers UK 2017

“Straightforward, responsive, pragmatic and clear with advice.” – Legal 500 2017

“She gets the measure of clients quickly, and gives a true insight into how the prosecution will think.” – Legal 500 2017

“Knowledgeable, responsive, thorough and adaptable.” – Legal 500 2016

“A pleasure to work with.” – Legal 500 2016

“She is very bright and recognises the most obscure points and uses them to her client’s advantage, with excellent results.” – Chambers UK 2017

“Sarah Przybylska has risen to prominence at an astonishingly young age. Extremely capable, she has won the support of many senior professional clients, one of whom said: ‘Those more senior at the Bar should beware!'” – Chambers UK 2017

“She is succinct and efficient both in writing and as an advocate.” – Chambers UK 2016

“Fast developing her reputation and experience, she has sound knowledge of the law and shows good judgment when running cases.” – Chambers UK 2016