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FTB ANNOUNCES TWO NEW TENANTS

FTB are delighted to announce that Annabel Graham Paul and Sarah Sackman have accepted invitations to join chambers. They both completed their pupillage with us and will join as junior tenants in October 2009.

Annabel Graham Paul graduated from Jesus College, Oxford University with First Class Honours and was graded ‘outstanding' on the Bar Vocational Course.  She did her pupillage with Meyric Lewis, Hereward Phillpot, Suzanne Ornsby and James Rankin.

She is increasingly instructed both alone and as a junior across all Chambers' areas of expertise.

Current projects include acting as junior to Keith Lindblom QC in a 6-week inquiry into a large mixed-use regeneration scheme.

Recent experience includes:

  • Crystal Palace Park Masterplan Inquiry: junior to Robert McCracken QC, representing the principal objector in a 6-week call-in Inquiry into the into the London Development Agency's ‘masterplan' for regeneration of this Grade II* registered park.
  • Village green inquiry: represented the applicant in a case that covered nearly every aspect of the statutory definition, including the Beresford ‘by right' / ‘as of right' issue.

Annabel Graham Paul joins FTB as of 6 October 2009.


Sarah Sackman graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge with First Class Honours and did her pupillage with Gregory Jones, Suzanne Ornsby and Hereward Phillpot.

Sarah has worked across the public law and human rights spectrum, and has a particular interest in environmental law, including cases with a European dimension. She also volunteers at Toynbee Hall where she advises on local government law, housing, debt and immigration law.

Recent experience includes:

  • Morge v Hampshire County Council - junior to Charles George QC in a judicial review challenge to a planning permission raising questions concerning the EIA and Habitats Directives.
  • Village Green Inquiry (Barton Playing Fields, Canterbury) representing local residents.
  • Acted for Chelsea Barracks Action Group objecting to Richard Rogers' scheme.
  • Cases involving changes to electoral boundaries, social security appeals and special education needs.

Sarah Sackman joins FTB as of 26 October 2009.