Sarida has a broad commercial and regulatory practice, with a particular focus on commercial disputes, competition and consumer law, corporations law, and regulated industries and professions.
In the commercial space, Sarida has acted for both small and large companies and private individuals in a range of civil disputes – from discrete applications involving novel points of law to long-running professional negligence disputes. In the regulatory sphere, she regularly acts for State and Federal regulators, as well as for private companies and individuals responding to regulatory action. Sarida has particular experience in the conduct of compulsory examinations by regulators such as ASIC and the ACCC. She acted (led) for senior members of the Forensic and Scientific Services’ DNA testing laboratory in the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland conducted by Walter Sofronoff KC (2022).
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.