Katie Sage

Career

Katie specialises in criminal regulatory, inquests and inquiry law.

Katie has experience representing companies and individuals facing charges under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, both in her own right and as junior counsel. She regularly advises companies on strategy and approach. Most recently, she has represented a contractor in relation to a fall from height on an HS2 site and advised in relation to an ongoing HSE investigation into breaches of the Ironising Radiation Regulations 2017. She was junior counsel in the Corporate Manslaughter prosecution of Greenfeeds Limited.

Katie has significant experience in fire safety cases. She has been instructed by public and private sector organisations to advise on the application of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 to property estates and construction sites of significant size, including for a company with 14,000 sites. She was instructed as junior counsel for RBKC in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and is junior counsel for one of the six defendants in the Beechmere retirement village fire prosecution.

Katie has experience defending companies in planning enforcement, noise abatement, housing enforcement and environmental health cases and has prosecuted for Thames Water.

Katie’s inquest practice includes cases involving deaths in care homes, social housing and medical settings, and also deaths at work and student suicides. Several of her cases have involved arguments on the application of Article 2. She recently acted as junior counsel for Reading Borough Council in the Forbury Gardens Terror Attack Inquest.

Professional Memberships

• HSLA

• Criminal Bar Association