Sarah Taylor
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Health & Safety
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About
Provided by Sarah Taylor
Practice Areas
Sarah is a specialist regulatory lawyer with extensive experience of supporting clients in relation to enforcement and compliance.
Sarah’s health and safety practice involves advice in the aftermath of workplace accidents and representation in the course of 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 advises 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 advises across sectors with a particular focus on retail and food manufacturing businesses.
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.
Career
Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 2000. Prior to joining Keystone law in 2022, she worked at the following firms:
Eversheds
Pinsent Masons
Clarion
Chambers Review
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Sarah Taylor of Keystone Law is renowned for her expertise in advising clients in the retail sector. She is also particularly adept at handling food safety-related issues. She regularly handles issues following serious accidents, including HSE investigations and prosecutions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She's a really thorough and exceptional lawyer."
"She is calm, measured and fantastic to work with."
"She is very experienced."
"She's a really thorough and exceptional lawyer."
"She is calm, measured and fantastic to work with."
"She is very experienced."