Ms Sarah Fraser Butlin

Email

skf21@cam.ac.uk

Selwyn College

Affiliated Lecturer; College Teaching Officer (Selwyn College)

M.A. (Cantab), BVC, Middle Temple.

Interests

Labour law. Clinical negligence. Criminal law.

CV / Biography

Sarah teaches labour and criminal law. She is currently running a research project, supported by the Employment Lawyers Association, exploring the resolution of employment disputes. The book Reimagining Employment Dispute Resolution will be published in Spring 2026.

She has given evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights in relation to industrial action, and to the Parliamentary Cross Party Working Group on Independent Complaints. She was invited to speak on Radio 4's Unreliable evidence discussing the Gender Pay Gap.

Sarah is also a practising barrister at Cloisters Chambers, London and sits a Recorder in the Crown Court and in the EAT. On which see: http://www.cloisters.com/barristers/sarah-fraser-butlin

Selected publications

Books

Low Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town (with C. Barnard and F. Costello) (Bristol University Press, 2023)

Co-Author/s:

C. Barnard and F. Costello

Publisher:

Bristol University Press

ISBN 13:

9781529229561

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law (with Zoe Adams, Catherine Barnard and Simon Deakin) (Hart Publishing, 2021) 7th Edition

Co-Author/s:

Zoe Adams, Catherine Barnard and Simon Deakin

Publisher:

Hart Publishing

Articles

'The changing status of EU nationals in the UK following Brexit: the lived experience of EU settlement scheme' [2022] 31(3) Social and Legal Studies 365-388

Co-Author/s:

Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello

Citation:

[2022] 31(3) Social and Legal Studies 365-388

Published: Forthcoming

'Ceding control and taking it back: the origins of free movement in EU law' [2022] 51(3) ILJ 643–671

Co-Author/s:

Catherine Barnard

Citation:

[2022] 51(3) ILJ 643–671

Published: Forthcoming

'The Rule of Law and Access to the Courts for EU Migrants' (2020) 58(6) JCMS 1621-1634

Co-Author/s:

Catherine Barnard

Citation:

(2020) 58(6) JCMS 1621-1634

Published: Sep 2020

'Cakes in the Supreme Court: Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and Others' [2019] 78 CLJ 280-283

Citation:

[2019] 78 CLJ 280-283

Link:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/cakes-in-the-supreme-court/E050591046EFA6CC7148DBF03A2C6C9F

Published: Jul 2019

'Beyond Employment Tribunals: Enforcement of Employment Rights by EU-8 Migrant Workers' [2018] ILJ 226-262

Co-Author/s:

C. Barnard and A. Ludlow

Citation:

[2018] ILJ 226-262

Link:

https://academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/indlaw/dwx020/4210445

Published: Jul 2018

'Free movement v. Fair movement: Brexit and managed migration' [2018] 55 CML Rev 203-226

Co-Author/s:

Catherine Barnard

Citation:

[2018] 55 CML Rev 203-226

Link:

https://www.kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?area=Journals&id=COLA2018064

Published: Feb 2018

'(Legal) assistance in employment matters to low-paid EU migrant workers in the East of England' (2022) 42(3) Legal Studies 491-507

Co-Author/s:

C. Barnard and F. Costello

Citation:

(2022) 42(3) Legal Studies 491-507

'Worker Status and Vicarious Liability: the need for coherence' University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 21/2018

Co-Author/s:

R. Allen QC

Citation:

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 21/2018

Link:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3123061

Published: Feb 2018

'The CJEU confused over religion ' [2017] 76 CLJ 30

Citation:

[2017] 76 CLJ 30

Link:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/cjeu-confused-over-religion/E52FECA9073C5BE8A2A12D10EA26719A

Published: Jul 2017

'Are Litigation and Collective Bargaining Complements or Substitutes for Achieving Gender Equality? A Study of the British Equal Pay Act' [2015] 39(2) CJE 381

Co-Author/s:

S. Deakin, C. McLaughlin and A. Polanska

Citation:

[2015] 39(2) CJE 381

Link:

https://academic.oup.com/cje/article/39/2/381/1687035

Published: Feb 2015

'The missed opportunity of Preston v Methodist Conference' [2017] 43 ILJ 485

Citation:

[2017] 43 ILJ 485

Link:

https://academic.oup.com/ilj/article-abstract/43/4/485/2724345?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Published: Dec 2014

'The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Does the Equality Act 2010 Measure Up to UK International Commitments? ' [2011] 40 ILJ 428

Citation:

[2011] 40 ILJ 428

Link:

https://academic.oup.com/ilj/article-abstract/40/4/428/663631

Published: Dec 2011

'The National Minimum Wage: Under threat from an unlikely source? ' [2006] 35 ILJ 289

Co-Author/s:

A. Sher

Citation:

[2006] 35 ILJ 289

Link:

https://academic.oup.com/ilj/article-abstract/35/3/289/651611?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Published: Sep 2006

Book Chapters

"Where Criminal Law Meets Labour Law: The Effectiveness of Criminal Sanctions to Enforce Labour Rights" (with Catherine Barnard) in Alan Bogg, Jennifer Collins, Mark Freedland and Jonathan Herring (ed(s)), Criminality at Work (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 70-94

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Pages:

70-94

Published Jan 2020

"Failed sterilisations", Lewis and Buchan: Clinical negligence (Bloomsbury, 2012)

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

ISBN 13:

9781847666734

Published Mar 2012

"Congenital disabilities", Lewis and Buchan: Clinical negligence (Bloomsbury, 2012)

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

ISBN 13:

9781847666734

Published Mar 2012

"Personal Injury" (with C. Glyn QC and T. Burton), Bullen and Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings (Sweet and Maxwell, 2017)

Publisher:

Sweet and Maxwell

ISBN 13:

9780414063853

Published Dec 2017

"The Human Rights Act and Judicial Review" (with A. Bradley), Supperstone, Goudie and Walker: Judicial Review (Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths, 2014)

Publisher:

Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths

ISBN 13:

9781474306966

Published Oct 2014

Ms Sarah Fraser Butlin

Email

Affiliated Lecturer; College Teaching Officer (Selwyn College)

Interests

CV / Biography

Selected publications

Books

Low Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town (with C. Barnard and F. Costello) (Bristol University Press, 2023)

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law (with Zoe Adams, Catherine Barnard and Simon Deakin) (Hart Publishing, 2021) 7th Edition

Articles

'The changing status of EU nationals in the UK following Brexit: the lived experience of EU settlement scheme' [2022] 31(3) Social and Legal Studies 365-388

'Ceding control and taking it back: the origins of free movement in EU law' [2022] 51(3) ILJ 643–671

'The Rule of Law and Access to the Courts for EU Migrants' (2020) 58(6) JCMS 1621-1634

'Cakes in the Supreme Court: Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and Others' [2019] 78 CLJ 280-283

'Beyond Employment Tribunals: Enforcement of Employment Rights by EU-8 Migrant Workers' [2018] ILJ 226-262

'Free movement v. Fair movement: Brexit and managed migration' [2018] 55 CML Rev 203-226

'(Legal) assistance in employment matters to low-paid EU migrant workers in the East of England' (2022) 42(3) Legal Studies 491-507

'Worker Status and Vicarious Liability: the need for coherence' University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 21/2018

'The CJEU confused over religion ' [2017] 76 CLJ 30

'Are Litigation and Collective Bargaining Complements or Substitutes for Achieving Gender Equality? A Study of the British Equal Pay Act' [2015] 39(2) CJE 381

'The missed opportunity of Preston v Methodist Conference' [2017] 43 ILJ 485

'The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Does the Equality Act 2010 Measure Up to UK International Commitments? ' [2011] 40 ILJ 428

'The National Minimum Wage: Under threat from an unlikely source? ' [2006] 35 ILJ 289

Book Chapters

"Where Criminal Law Meets Labour Law: The Effectiveness of Criminal Sanctions to Enforce Labour Rights" (with Catherine Barnard) in Alan Bogg, Jennifer Collins, Mark Freedland and Jonathan Herring (ed(s)), Criminality at Work (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 70-94

"Failed sterilisations", Lewis and Buchan: Clinical negligence (Bloomsbury, 2012)

"Congenital disabilities", Lewis and Buchan: Clinical negligence (Bloomsbury, 2012)

"Personal Injury" (with C. Glyn QC and T. Burton), Bullen and Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings (Sweet and Maxwell, 2017)

"The Human Rights Act and Judicial Review" (with A. Bradley), Supperstone, Goudie and Walker: Judicial Review (Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths, 2014)

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