Sarah Cowey

Date of Birth: 1983
Date of Call: 2006

General Information
MA Hons (Cantab) Law: 1^st Class
LLM (Cantab): 1^st Class (highest first in the year)

Chancellor’s Medal for English Law
BRD Clarke Prize
Gareth Jones Prize for the Law of Restitution
Downing College Association Prize for outstanding performance
University Norton Rose Prize for highest 1^st in Law Tripos Part 1A
Downing College Tripos Prizes 2002, 2003, 2004 Senior
Harris Scholar  

Bar Vocational Course: Outstanding
The Everard Ver Heyden Foundation Prize
The Bar Association Prize for Commerce, Finance and Industry  

Middle Temple Queen Mother Scholar and Harmsworth Entrance Exhibitioner  

From 2005 to 2006, Sarah supervised Contract Law at Selwyn College, St Edmund’s College and Christ’s College, Cambridge University

Practice
Sarah practises in all areas of commercial law including insurance and reinsurance; shipping; international trade; sale of goods; professional negligence and private international law. Sarah regularly advises and settles pleadings in a wide variety of commercial disputes.

Sarah has appeared in the High Court and the County Court.

Selected cases and experience

• Masefield AG v Amlin Corporate Member Ltd [2010] EWHC 280 (Comm)
  Led by Peter MacDonald-Eggers in a marine insurance claim for an actual total loss or constructive total loss of cargo aboard a vessel seized by Somali pirates.
• Sara Dayman (as trustee) v Lawrence Graham [2008] EWHC 2036 (Ch)
  Instructed as junior counsel for the Defendant in respect of a professional negligence claim.
• Instructed to appear in an Admiralty Court trial concerning a general average claim.
• Instructed as junior counsel in an application by Defendants for summary judgement and/or to strike out the professional negligence claim against them.
• Instructed as part of a team of counsel to represent Willis in respect of substantial claims arising out of the PA LMX and Occupational Accident reinsurance markets in the 1990s.
• Instructed as junior counsel in respect of an insurance claim arising from fire damage to a warehouse.
• Instructed as part of a team of counsel in respect of a large reinsurance arbitration relating to a whole account excess of loss reinsurance programme.
• Advising as to jurisdiction and the effect of administration on a claim against insurance brokers.
• Advising and drafting defence submissions to a claim for dead freight in arbitration proceedings in the LMAA small claims procedure.
• Advising in relation to time charter and voyage charter disputes, including demurrage disputes.
• Instructed to appear in a two day multi-track trial concerning a contractual dispute over the division of profit in the context of the recruitment industry.
• Instructed to appear in a fast track trial concerning allegations of misrepresentation and the recovery of a deposit.