Sarah Watson
Sarah has extensive and broad experience across many areas of employment law. She practised as a self-employed barrister for nine years at Devereux Chambers, a leading employment law set, before joining LexisNexis in 2013. During her time in practice, Sarah worked alongside law firms and in-house legal teams, providing practical and strategic advice to a wide range of employer, employee and trade union clients. She gained considerable advocacy experience, representing clients in the Employment Tribunal, the County Court, the High Court, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.
Sarah has a particular interest and expertise in disability discrimination, pregnancy and maternity discrimination, whistleblowing, holiday pay and tribunal procedure. She has used her experience and insights from practice to help design the LexisNexis suite of online calculators for employment lawyers. As part of the LexisNexis Employment team, Sarah is heavily involved in reviewing the latest developments in legislation, case law and other news, writing News Analysis and updating practical guidance materials and tribunal precedents. In recent years, she has also increasingly been involved in projects relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, including gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting.