Called to the Bar in 2021, Sarida has a broad regulatory and commercial practice, with particular expertise in matters involving competition and consumer law, the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), business disputes, financial services, and difficult or novel questions of statutory interpretation and expert evidence.

In the regulatory space, Sarida is regularly briefed (led and unled) by government entities such as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, and the Australian Energy Regulator in relation to investigations, litigation, and advice. She was one of junior counsel assisting the ACCC in its 2024-2025 Supermarkets Inquiry; acted (led) for senior members of the Forensic and Scientific Services’ DNA testing laboratory in the 2022 Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland; and has acted (both led and unled) for ASIC in number of urgent ex parte applications for asset preservation and travel restraint orders.

Sarida also frequently acts for private parties responding to government action (including in relation to disqualification and banning orders and compulsory examinations).

In the commercial space, Sarida has acted (led and unled) for both small and large companies and private individuals in a range of civil matters in the Supreme and District Courts of Queensland ¾ from director disputes about the control of a company to long-running contract and negligence claims involving multiple parties.

Before being called to the Bar, Sarida was a solicitor in the Civil Regulation team of the Australian Government Solicitor; a senior associate in the competition law team of an international law firm; and a civil law adviser in the ministerial office of the Commonwealth Attorney-General. She completed her masters thesis on the economics of human gene patents at the University of Cambridge.

For further information and selected cases, please download her resume at the link above.