Sarah Backhouse

Sarah Backhouse is a highly experienced legal professional currently serving as the Manager of Legal Services at WorkSafe New Zealand since September 2014, focusing on health and safety prosecutions and providing regulatory, operational, and public law advice. Prior to that, Sarah worked as a Conflicts Lawyer at Clifford Chance from December 2013 to August 2014, where responsibilities included advising on global risk and compliance matters. Sarah's earlier experience includes a solicitor role at Dentons Kensington Swan from March 2010 to July 2013, emphasizing general litigation, public law, and health law, and a law clerk position at the same firm from November 2007 to March 2009. Sarah holds a Bachelor's Degree in Law and a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, completed in 2009, and attended St Catherine's College from 2000 to 2004.