Sarah is a specialist regulatory lawyer with extensive experience advising clients on enforcement and compliance matters. Her client base spans a range of sectors with a particular focus on retail and food manufacturing businesses.
Sarah’s health and safety practice involves providing advice on the aftermath of workplace accidents and representation during investigations and prosecutions by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities nationwide. She advises on food safety and hygiene matters, including use-by dates and pest control, and on food labelling requirements where she supports the bringing of new products to market. Sarah is also experienced in relation to consumer protection, product safety and the management of age-restricted sales.
In respect of advertising and marketing, she is instructed by clients for her expertise on the compliance of copy with the Advertising Codes and on complaints taken up by the Advertising Standards Authority. In her non-contentious practice, she advises on the adequacy of policies and procedures and provides training on responsibility and accountability in the operational line.
Sarah has Higher Rights of Audience in the Criminal Courts and appears regularly in the Magistrates’ Courts and at Coroner’s Inquests into work-related deaths.
Expertise
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Recognition
“She is very experienced. ”
“She is calm, measured and fantastic to work with.”
“She’s a really thorough and exceptional lawyer.”
“Sarah is a leading health and safety lawyer with exceptional knowledge of the law.”
“She can manage a team extremely well on a case and stays calm and unflappable under pressure.”
“She is very impressive and very experienced.”
“Sarah is one of the most experienced health and safety lawyers. She is exceptional with clients. Her written work and attention to detail is fantastic.”
“She has a real specialism and experience in the health and safety space. She is a detailed lawyer who is very solid and committed to her clients.”
“Sarah Taylor is one of the outstanding regulatory lawyers of her generation.”
“Sarah is in my view the pre-eminent solicitor for all types of regulatory work – food, health and safety, criminal product liability and so on. She is vastly experienced, has immense commercial judgement and is an absolute pleasure to work with.”
“Sarah Taylor is simply one of the best health and safety and food safety / retail lawyers in the country. Very experienced, a loyal list of clients and she is very impressive at strategy and case management. Very personable and calm. Outstanding operator in this field.”
