Sara Snakenbroek Bellieni
Solicitor
About Sara Snakenbroek Bellieni
Sara qualified as a solicitor in June 2025. She started working at Wilsons in November 2021 in the billing department before joining the Public Law & Human Rights department in April 2023. She qualified following the SQE route through completing the Graduate Solicitor Apprenticeship with the University of Law. She passed SQE1 in July 2024 and SQE2 in January 2025. She achieved high marks in both assessments.
Sara completed her training at Wilsons between April 2023 and June 2025. In this period, she worked on various judicial reviews and civil claims against public authorities, covering issues such as unlawful detention, asylum support, and human rights breaches. She also supported the team in handling group claims on behalf of clients unlawfully detained at the Manston Short-Term Holding Facility, clients facing potential removal to Rwanda as well as unlawful detention claims. She has experience working with vulnerable people, including victims of torture, trafficking and modern slavery, and age-disputed young people.
Sara is passionate about holding state bodies to account for her clients through challenging ongoing breaches of legislation, unlawful decisions and obtaining damages for her clients in recognition of the wrongs done to them. She wishes to develop her practice in judicial review and civil claims.
Sara graduated with a first-class degree in Law from the University of Kent in 2020. She was awarded the Kent Law School prize in Comparative Law for outstanding achievement in the course. Sara also holds a Masters in Transnational Law (LLM) from King’s College London which she obtained in 2021.
Sara volunteered with BXLRefugees and Convivial, two NGOs providing essential items and food as well as offering administrative and legal support to asylum seekers and refugees in Belgium. Whilst at King’s College London, Sara volunteered at the University of London Refugee Law Clinic where she worked on preparing fresh claims for asylum for a year. At King’s College London, she was also an active contributor to the Legal Compass blog , a student-led platform focusing on topical cross-border legal issues.
Interests: History, Travel, Arts and Food
Languages: French (native), Spanish and Italian (conversational)