Sarah accepts briefs in areas including administrative, workers’ compensation, discrimination, employment and industrial, inquiries, regulation and professional discipline.
Sarah conducts appeals both led and unled (including unled at the Full Federal Court level), as well as regularly appearing unled in matters involving claims of discrimination, breaches of the Fair Work Act and various statutory compensation entitlements. Sarah consistently appears unled in the ART in a range of complex matters, and also in related judicial review and appeal proceedings. Sarah is regularly trusted to deal with highly sensitive employment matters.
Sarah’s legal experience is supplemented by her experience working for a year for the United Nations in Jordan and as a Navy Officer. Sarah received several honours and awards in her legal studies including the Jean Rogerson Honours Studentship (awarded to the top 5 Honours students) and the Alan White Scholarship.
Qualifications
1. Accredited Workplace Mediator, Total Conflict Management, London, 2009
2. Master of Laws (Merit), Australian National University, 2004
3. Bachelor of Laws (Honours), University of Western Australia, 2001
4. Bachelor of Arts, University of New South Wales (ADFA), 1996
Contact
To obtain further contact details, please initially contact Sarah by email at sarah.wright@tasbar.com.au
Chambers
Derwent & Tamar Chambers
128 Macquarie Street
HOBART TAS 7000
Postal Address
PO Box 42
MAWSON ACT 2607
Noted Experience
- Part of the counsel team representing the Commonwealth before the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (variously led and unled, 2021-2024)
- Comcare v Simeoni (2024) 181 ALD 561; [2024] FCAFC 31 (unled)
- Wills v Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Skills Quality Authority (2022) 289 FCR 175; FCAFC 10 (led)
- Wonson v Comcare (2020) 276 FCR 613; FCAFC 76 (led)
- Al-Naser v The Medical Board of Australia (Appeal) [2020] ACAT 19 (unled)