Sasha Barton

Sasha graduated from Cambridge University in 1999 with a degree in English Literature. She worked at the Commission for Racial Equality from 2002 to 2005, specialising in advising public bodies on the race equality duty and Gypsy and Irish Traveller law and policy.

She now specialises in actions against the police, prisons, immigration detention claims and judicial reviews. She has a particular interest in claims involving unlawful discrimination and human rights breaches. She also deals with miscarriages of justice and claims under the Data Protection Act 1998. She often represents very vulnerable victims, including clients who have been traumatised by sexual assault.