MEET:
Sara Mansoori KC
"She contributes first class analytics and has the ability to simplify the most complex issues and never losing sight of key issues."
Legal 500 2022
Sara has a wide range of experience and practices in all areas of media and information law. She has acted in many high-profile and significant cases in this area, recent examples include Vardy v Rooney, Banks v Cadwalladr, ZXC v Bloomberg and Sicri v Associated Newspapers. Sara also practices in human rights law and public law. Before joining Matrix in 2011, Sara was a Senior Lawyer at the Ministry of Justice in their Information and Human Rights team and, prior to that, she was a tenant at 5RB for 10 years. Sara is an ADR Group Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator.
Sara acts for primarily for Claimants, but also represents Defendants and has represented a wide range of clients, including the Core Participant Victims in the Leveson Inquiry, Actors, Sports men/women, Members of Parliament, Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Law Firms, and media publishers. She has substantial litigation experience and has appeared as sole advocate in jury and judge alone libel trials. She has also got extensive experience of providing pre-publication advice to publishers and NGOs.
Sara was awarded Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection Junior of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards in 2020. Chambers & Partners recommend her as being “unbelievably calm, sensitive and intelligent.” “She is extremely bright, good-humoured and full of ideas” She is also recommended as a leading junior in the Legal 500 in the areas of Defamation and Privacy “Committed, through and a delight to work with”; IT and Telecoms (including Data Protection) “An excellent addition to any team”; and in Media and Entertainment “Bright, practical and extremely user friendly”.
Sara sits on the Board and is a Trustee of the legal reform charity JUSTICE. She has been involved in a number of Legal Assistance Programmes with the Bar Human Rights Committee including a Judicial Visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a Library Resources Project in Sudan and Commercial Law Training Project in Sudan.
Author Contributor to ‘Information Rights’, 6th Ed (Bloomsbury 2023)
Speaker at The White Paper Conference on ZXC and injunctions, March 2023
Speaker at Matrix Media Conference on the rise of privacy as a legal remedy, March 2023
Author Contributor to ‘Football and the Law”, 2nd Ed (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Speaker at the Big Voice London Training Programme on ZXC v Bloomberg, May 2022
Speaker at The White Paper Conference on Privacy Law/ZXC, February 2022
Speaker at The White Conference on Privacy law, Feb 2021
Speaker at the Matrix Media Seminar on Jurisdiction & Remedies in Privacy Claims, 2019
Author Contributor to ‘Football and the Law”, 1st Ed (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Co-author of “Online Publication Claims: A Practical Guide” (Dec 2017)
Speaker at Matrix ‘Open Justice’ Seminar, Nov 2017
Speaker at Protecting the Media Conference 2016
Speaker at the Matrix/Unison Seminar on the DPA, FOIA and DBS, July 2015
Speaker at The White Conference on Defamation and Media, November 2014
Speaker at the Matrix Information Seminar: Privacy and Social Media, March 2014
Speaker at the JUSTICE Human Rights Conference on ‘Privacy, Defamation and Super-Injunctions’, October 2011
Speaker at the 2-day MOJ ‘Introduction to Information Law’ on Freedom of Information and Data Protection, January 2011 and March 2011
Speaker at The Human Rights Law Conference 2007 on ‘Privacy and Freedom of Expression – the media and human rights’
Speaker at the 5RB Conference ‘Media, Image and Sports Law in 21st Century” in Sept 2006 on ‘Jurisdiction in Libel and Privacy Internet Cases’
Regular contributor to the Inforrm Blog
Co-author of ‘The Law of Privacy and the Media’ (OUP, 2002)
1998 3rd six month pupillage at 5RB
1997-1998 Pupillage at Brick Court Chambers
1997 Called to the Bar
1996-1997 BVC (Very Competent)
1992-1995 The University of Leeds
LLB (Hons.) (First Class)
2022 Appointed Queen’s Counsel
2015 Accredited as ADR Mediator (Civil and Commercial)
2011 to date Barrister at Matrix
2009-2011 Senior Lawyer at Ministry of Justice Head of Information Team in the Human Rights and Information Team
1998-2009 Barrister at 5RB
Sara is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. In order to provide legal services to her clients, including advice and representation services, Sara needs to collect and hold personal data. This includes her client’s personal data and the personal data of others who feature in the matter upon which she is instructed. To read Sara’s privacy notice in full, please see here.
"Sara knows this area of law extremely well and is a delight to work with. She is extremely bright and engages closely with the client's needs and feels very much part of any team."
"Extremely hard-working and brilliant drafter, very good with clients and a pleasure to work with."
"Sara is outstandingly good." "She takes a very practical approach, is extremely hard-working and has a natural empathy with the client's position." "She's very good on the law and is very good in terms of practical advice. She not only says what the law is but is practical in terms of how the advice is conveyed."
"Sara is fantastic with clients and excellent with strategy." "She is incredibly hard-working and hugely knowledgeable." "An excellent, down-to-earth silk who rolls her sleeves up and is collaborative."
"Sara is practical, empathetic and client-friendly. She's legally astute with boundless energy." "Sara Mansoori is really well thought of, incredibly hard-working and hugely knowledgeable."
"Simply the go-to person for anything relating to the GDPR. She knows the law inside out and is a formidable advocate."
"She is excellent at both strategy and detail. She is a calm and reliable member of any team who is liked by solicitors, her peers and clients alike. She is particularly good at written argument and has also become a compelling advocate."
"Simply the go-to person for anything relating to the GDPR. She knows the law inside out and is a formidable advocate."
"She contributes first class analytics and has the ability to simplify the most complex issues and never losing sight of key issues."
"She's extremely hard-working, tenacious and has very good attention to detail; she's meticulous and generally just very easy to deal with." "Her ability as an advocate is strong; she provides clear written advocacy and her advice is to the point and business-oriented." "She's brilliant, has got the knowledge as well as the practical experience and is at the cutting edge of the data protection field."
"She has the ability to see the potential strategy from a number of angles and choose the best to take." "She is extremely hard-working, meticulous and tenacious, and has very good attention to detail."
"Absolutely first-class. She has a very good manner with clients and shows exceptional attention to detail."
"She has an impressive ability to digest complicated cases and cut to the key issues."
"She is extremely bright, good-humoured and full of ideas."
"Meticulous attention to detail – a real star."
"Intelligent, thoughtful, user-friendly and always available to help in a crisis."
"Extremely capable."
"Committed, thorough and a delight to work with."
"An excellent addition to any team."
"Bright, practical and extremely user friendly."
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
+44 (0)20 7404 3447
"She contributes first class analytics and has the ability to simplify the most complex issues and never losing sight of key issues."
Legal 500 2022
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Election Law
- Civil Liberties and Human Rights
- Injunctions
- Inquests and Inquiries
- Media and Information Law
- Court Orders affecting the Media
- Data Protection
- Defamation and Privacy
- Harassment
- Mediation
- Public Law
- Sports Law
- Public Law: Information, Data and Privacy
- Police, Inquests and Prison
- Commercial Public Law
Sara Mansoori KC
Contact Sara: saramansoori@matrixlaw.co.uk | +44 (0)20 7404 3447
Contact Sara's Practice Team (Team M): TeamM@matrixlaw.co.uk
Sara has a wide range of experience and practices in all areas of media and information law. She has acted in many high-profile and significant cases in this area, recent examples include Vardy v Rooney, Banks v Cadwalladr, ZXC v Bloomberg and Sicri v Associated Newspapers. Sara also practices in human rights law and public law. Before joining Matrix in 2011, Sara was a Senior Lawyer at the Ministry of Justice in their Information and Human Rights team and, prior to that, she was a tenant at 5RB for 10 years. Sara is an ADR Group Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator.
Sara acts for primarily for Claimants, but also represents Defendants and has represented a wide range of clients, including the Core Participant Victims in the Leveson Inquiry, Actors, Sports men/women, Members of Parliament, Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Law Firms, and media publishers. She has substantial litigation experience and has appeared as sole advocate in jury and judge alone libel trials. She has also got extensive experience of providing pre-publication advice to publishers and NGOs.
Sara was awarded Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection Junior of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards in 2020. Chambers & Partners recommend her as being “unbelievably calm, sensitive and intelligent.” “She is extremely bright, good-humoured and full of ideas” She is also recommended as a leading junior in the Legal 500 in the areas of Defamation and Privacy “Committed, through and a delight to work with”; IT and Telecoms (including Data Protection) “An excellent addition to any team”; and in Media and Entertainment “Bright, practical and extremely user friendly”.
Sara sits on the Board and is a Trustee of the legal reform charity JUSTICE. She has been involved in a number of Legal Assistance Programmes with the Bar Human Rights Committee including a Judicial Visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a Library Resources Project in Sudan and Commercial Law Training Project in Sudan.
Lectures and Publications
Author Contributor to ‘Information Rights’, 6th Ed (Bloomsbury 2023)
Speaker at The White Paper Conference on ZXC and injunctions, March 2023
Speaker at Matrix Media Conference on the rise of privacy as a legal remedy, March 2023
Author Contributor to ‘Football and the Law”, 2nd Ed (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Speaker at the Big Voice London Training Programme on ZXC v Bloomberg, May 2022
Speaker at The White Paper Conference on Privacy Law/ZXC, February 2022
Speaker at The White Conference on Privacy law, Feb 2021
Speaker at the Matrix Media Seminar on Jurisdiction & Remedies in Privacy Claims, 2019
Author Contributor to ‘Football and the Law”, 1st Ed (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Co-author of “Online Publication Claims: A Practical Guide” (Dec 2017)
Speaker at Matrix ‘Open Justice’ Seminar, Nov 2017
Speaker at Protecting the Media Conference 2016
Speaker at the Matrix/Unison Seminar on the DPA, FOIA and DBS, July 2015
Speaker at The White Conference on Defamation and Media, November 2014
Speaker at the Matrix Information Seminar: Privacy and Social Media, March 2014
Speaker at the JUSTICE Human Rights Conference on ‘Privacy, Defamation and Super-Injunctions’, October 2011
Speaker at the 2-day MOJ ‘Introduction to Information Law’ on Freedom of Information and Data Protection, January 2011 and March 2011
Speaker at The Human Rights Law Conference 2007 on ‘Privacy and Freedom of Expression – the media and human rights’
Speaker at the 5RB Conference ‘Media, Image and Sports Law in 21st Century” in Sept 2006 on ‘Jurisdiction in Libel and Privacy Internet Cases’
Regular contributor to the Inforrm Blog
Co-author of ‘The Law of Privacy and the Media’ (OUP, 2002)
Qualifications
1998 3rd six month pupillage at 5RB
1997-1998 Pupillage at Brick Court Chambers
1997 Called to the Bar
1996-1997 BVC (Very Competent)
1992-1995 The University of Leeds
LLB (Hons.) (First Class)
Career
2022 Appointed Queen’s Counsel
2015 Accredited as ADR Mediator (Civil and Commercial)
2011 to date Barrister at Matrix
2009-2011 Senior Lawyer at Ministry of Justice Head of Information Team in the Human Rights and Information Team
1998-2009 Barrister at 5RB
Articles and Downloads
Sara's Privacy Notice
Sara is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. In order to provide legal services to her clients, including advice and representation services, Sara needs to collect and hold personal data. This includes her client’s personal data and the personal data of others who feature in the matter upon which she is instructed. To read Sara’s privacy notice in full, please see here.
DIRECTORY RECOMMENDATIONS
"Sara knows this area of law extremely well and is a delight to work with. She is extremely bright and engages closely with the client's needs and feels very much part of any team."
"Extremely hard-working and brilliant drafter, very good with clients and a pleasure to work with."
"Sara is outstandingly good." "She takes a very practical approach, is extremely hard-working and has a natural empathy with the client's position." "She's very good on the law and is very good in terms of practical advice. She not only says what the law is but is practical in terms of how the advice is conveyed."
"Sara is fantastic with clients and excellent with strategy." "She is incredibly hard-working and hugely knowledgeable." "An excellent, down-to-earth silk who rolls her sleeves up and is collaborative."
"Sara is practical, empathetic and client-friendly. She's legally astute with boundless energy." "Sara Mansoori is really well thought of, incredibly hard-working and hugely knowledgeable."
"Simply the go-to person for anything relating to the GDPR. She knows the law inside out and is a formidable advocate."
"She is excellent at both strategy and detail. She is a calm and reliable member of any team who is liked by solicitors, her peers and clients alike. She is particularly good at written argument and has also become a compelling advocate."
"Simply the go-to person for anything relating to the GDPR. She knows the law inside out and is a formidable advocate."
"She contributes first class analytics and has the ability to simplify the most complex issues and never losing sight of key issues."
"She's extremely hard-working, tenacious and has very good attention to detail; she's meticulous and generally just very easy to deal with." "Her ability as an advocate is strong; she provides clear written advocacy and her advice is to the point and business-oriented." "She's brilliant, has got the knowledge as well as the practical experience and is at the cutting edge of the data protection field."
"She has the ability to see the potential strategy from a number of angles and choose the best to take." "She is extremely hard-working, meticulous and tenacious, and has very good attention to detail."
"Absolutely first-class. She has a very good manner with clients and shows exceptional attention to detail."
"She has an impressive ability to digest complicated cases and cut to the key issues."
"She is extremely bright, good-humoured and full of ideas."
"Meticulous attention to detail – a real star."
"Intelligent, thoughtful, user-friendly and always available to help in a crisis."
"Extremely capable."
"Committed, thorough and a delight to work with."
"An excellent addition to any team."
"Bright, practical and extremely user friendly."