Sarah Macqueen Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Secondment position working as in-house Legal Counsel - Litigation

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Litigation Associate specialising in Insurance and Construction related litigation. I have experience in running High Court litigation and liaising directly with clients and counsel in the handling of disputes.

• Assisting counsel in the preparation for and running of a 15 day trial involving Pension Fund Administration in the South Gauteng High Court;
• Working on a number of insurance-related matters involving recoveries by underwriters, subrogated recovery actions by insurers and repudiation of claims by insurers, including cases which have gone to trial in both the.
• Representing clients in filing complaints with the Long-Term Insurance Ombudsman relating to large life insurance policies;
• Interacting with lawyers from other countries relating to a large South African infrastructural and transport project;
• Drafting particulars, pleas and other trial documents for a wide variety of cases in both Magistrates Courts and High Courts;
• Drafting opinions on the Consumer Protection Act, Business Rescue proceedings in terms of the Companies’ Act and specific clients’ Terms and Conditions for use by corporate clients in expanding and safe guarding their.

• Lecturing Criminal Procedure to Final Year and First Year students; lecturing Law of Sale, Lease and Carriage to Second Year students:
• Preparing and presenting lectures;
• Setting and assessing assignments, tests and exams

Grahamstown Area, South Africa

• Supervising tutorial programme and hand-ins of student work;
• Conducting tutorials with students;
• Marking student submissions;
• Capturing student marks for online system;
• Running the Language Skills Programme for first year students who wanted to improve their English language and writing skills.

Compiling and editing the annual Rhodes University Law Faculty publication, the InCamera magazine.

Handling the annual budget, allocating funds, applying for university funding, events planning and coordination.

Making appointments, processing payments and medical aid claims, using basic electronic billing programs.

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.), Law

Activities and Societies: Moot Court, Legal Activism, Ballroom Dancing With distinction

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Honours, History And Law

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Law, History, Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: Underwater Club, Law Society

Matric - Ieb, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program