Sabrina Goodchild

Practice Areas

Sabrina is a specialist regulatory barrister with particular expertise in regulated financial services work and consumer law, spanning both civil and criminal jurisdictions. She also regularly acts in mis-selling claims, including in the context of green products, insurance and timeshares. She is frequently instructed in cases with substantial strategic or national importance, and has an increasing appellate practice.

Her clients include financial institutions, businesses and regulators, and Sabrina is often instructed as specialist counsel when consumer law issues arise in related areas of law.

Recent court work includes acting in R v AUH [2023] EWCA Crim 6 and [2022] EWCA Crim 1113 (the leading cases on the power of local authorities to prosecute “consumer offences” out-of-area), in the appeal from CFL Finance Ltd v Gertner [2021] EWCA Civ 228 on the definition of “credit”, as sole counsel in a 4-day High Court trial against a legal expenses insurer, and in multi-handed trading standards prosecutions.

Recent advisory work includes advising on the legality of differential booking fees, the regulation of ebikes and funeral plans, on Enterprise Act undertakings and enforcement orders, on customer journeys for compliance with consumer law, and reviewing loan books for FCA compliance.

Career

Called to the Bar in 2017

Seconded to the FCA in 2018 and 2020

Appointed to the Attorney General’s London Panel in 2023

Publications

Contributing editor to ‘The Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law’