LICENSING
Sarah Clover is a national expert. Click below to read more
PLANNING
Sarah is very experienced and repeatedly rated as a “fighter”
REGULATORY & MEDIATION
Sarah is highly experienced in regulatory law & mediation
ARTICLES & DECISIONS
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SARAH CLOVER
IS A HIGHLY REGARDED AND RESPECTED EXPERT IN REGULATORY LAW.
Sarah has been a barrister for over twenty years, and has a national reputation in her specialist areas of law.
Sarah specialises particularly in Licensing, Planning and other regulatory and environmental work. She is described as: “a real fighter”; “a good legal brain”; “very approachable”; rated for “attention to detail” and “a fantastic advocate”.
CREDENTIALS
Sarah Clover – specialist adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Licensing Act 2003
“She is tenacious, conscientious and down-to-earth, as well as being completely and utterly expert”
Sarah Clover – Kings Chambers “The top Licensing Barrister outside of London, without a doubt.”
Sarah Clover – Kings Chambers “A real fighter.”
Sarah Clover – Kings Chambers “She has an excellent eye for detail.”
“She is very helpful, approachable and always on hand to advise us.”
“She is feisty, incredibly knowledgable and well reaserched, and knows her case law very well.”
Nominated for Birmingham Law Society Barrister of the Year 2017
BLOGS
“Lucy’s Law” – Puppy Farming and Licensing Dog Sales. Update
For those who have been following the high profile media campaign ( Andrew Penman - Daily Mirror), promoting “Lucy’s Law”, https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/lucys-law, the interest in the subject has been mounting. The campaign has now drawn significant interest, and the issues are being debated nationally. “Lucy’s Law” is the label that has been attached to the argument that sales of puppies [...]
The Premise of the Argument
Regular readers of this column will immediately acknowledge the gravity and significance of the topics hitherto covered in previous editions. This quarter, however, the subject matter will undoubtedly be universally accepted as the most important question of all in Licensing. How do you say “premises”? Of course, merely uttering the word itself presents no difficulties whatsoever, but when it is [...]
Legally Illegal
I have been reading a lot recently about how poppers are going to be “made legal”. This is faintly annoying. Poppers were legal; are legal, and, so far as we can tell, always will be legal: their status in the legal canon remains stoically unaltered. Poppers are on a long list of things that I knew nothing about and would [...]