The areas of work in which we have particular expertise, experience and excellence.
The areas of work in which we have particular expertise, experience and excellence.
Call: 1997 Silk: 2023
"She produces excellent written work. She is a superb trial advocate."
Chambers & Partners 2023
Sarah Prager KC specialises in travel law claims, including claims under the Package Travel Regulations 1992 and 2018, the Athens and Montreal Conventions, and at common law.
She also has a particular expertise in all aspects of conflict of law and jurisdiction.
Together with her colleagues Matthew Chapman and Jack Harding she co-wrote the most recent editions of Saggerson on Travel Law. Sarah also contributes to publications produced internationally by the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, and most recently contributed chapters to its Collective Commentary on the New Package Travel Directive (ESHTE, 2020, chapters on Article 21 and on transposition into UK law) and to its book Tourism Law in Europe (ESHTE, 2021, chapter on tourism law in the UK). She has written the chapter on England and Wales in The Legal Impacts of Covid-19 in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry (ESTHE, 2021). Sarah also finds the time to update the chapter of the Encyclopaedia of Insurance Law on the Motor Insurers’ Bureau.
Sarah was invited to join the Consultative Group of Experts to the UNWTO Committee for the Development of an International Code for the Protection of Tourists; the Code has now been adopted by the UNWTO and is being implemented internationally. She has also been co-opted to the Admiralty Court Users’ Committee as a representative of the personal injury Bar.
Sarah undertakes work in all areas of cross border work, encompassing claims involving issues of private international law, package holidays, international carriage, contractual recovery and cross border clinical negligence, and her caseload reflects this breadth of practice.
ST v BAI [2022] EWCA Civ 1037
The appropriate approach to applications for permission to extend the lifetime of a claim form for service outside the jurisdiction.
Stait v Cosmos Insurance [2022] EWCA Civ 1429
Jurisdiction and residence in the case of members of the armed forces posted overseas. Application for permission to appeal currently being considered by the Supreme Court.
Sherman v Readers Offers Limited, unreported, judgment May 2022
Cancellation and/or alteration of itinerary in a package holiday case.
Klifa v Slater [2022] ILPr 15
Jurisdiction in a cross border road traffic claim.
Chowdhury v PZU [2022] ILPr 8
Residence and jurisdiction in a cross border road traffic claim.
McBee v McBee, settled July 2021
A high value personal injury claim in which the governing law was unclear and the interplay between English and South Carolinian law and practice was highly complex.
Alli-Balogun v On the Beach v MPYTT [2021] 1 WLR 193
Service out of the jurisdiction in a recovery claim by a tour operator against a bed bank.
Mahapatra v TUI [2021] 1 Lloyds Rep 71
Applicability of the Athens Convention in a disembarkation case.
Lackey v Mallorca Mega Resorts, Generali [2020] 1 All ER 558
Jurisdiction in a cross border consumer claim.
Schofield v Gultepe, judgment December 2019
Liability in a high value cross border maritime claim.
Collins v Lawrence [2018] 1 Lloyds Rep 603
Applicability of the Athens Convention in a disembarkation case.
Foran v Secret Surgery Limited [2016] 5 WLUK 92
Service outside the jurisdiction.
Cook v Virgin Media Limited [2016] 1 WLR 1672:
Forum non conveniens in cases with a Scottish connection.
Lougheed v On the Beach [2014] 11 WLUK 780
Leading case on local standards in package holiday claims.
Japp v Virgin Holidays Limited [2014] PIQR RP8
Local standards in package holiday claims.
Harrison v Jagged Globe [2012] 5 WLUK 867
Leading case on assumption of responsibility for guides in package holiday claims.
Michael v Musgrave [2012] 2 Lloyds Rep 37
Definition of ‘seagoing vessel’ for the purposes of the Athens Convention
Milner v Carnival Plc [2010] 3 All ER 701:
Leading case on quantification of damages in holiday claims.
Moore v Hotelplan [2010] 2 WLUK 619
Liability of a tour operator for excursions.
Bonsall v Cattolica Assicurazioni [2010] ILPr 45
Applicability and entry into force of the Rome II Regulation in a cross border road traffic claim.
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ST v BAI [2021] 7 WLUK 302, to be determined in the Court of Appeal July 2022
Stait v Cosmos Insurance, unreported, to be determined in the Court of Appeal September 2022
Sherman v Readers Offers Limited, unreported, judgment May 2022
Klifa v Slater [2022] ILPr 15
Chowdhury v PZU [2022] ILPr 8
Alli-Balogun v On the Beach v MPYTT [2021] 1 WLR 193
Mahapatra v TUI [2021] 1 Lloyds Rep 71
Lackey v Mallorca Mega Resorts, Generali [2020] 1 All ER 558
Collins v Lawrence [2018] 1 Lloyds Rep 603
Foran v Secret Surgery Limited [2016] 5 WLUK 92
Cook v Virgin Media Limited [2016] 1 WLR 1672
Lougheed v On the Beach [2014] 11 WLUK 780
Japp v Virgin Holidays Limited [2014] PIQR RP8
Harrison v Jagged Globe [2012] 5 WLUK 867
Michael v Musgrave [2012] 2 Lloyds Rep 37
Milner v Carnival Plc [2010] 3 All ER 701
Moore v Hotelplan [2010] 2 WLUK 619
Bonsall v Cattolica Assicurazioni [2010] ILPr 45
Holden v First Choice [2006] 5 WLUK 787
Lambert v Travelsphere [2004] 9 WLUK 9
