Sue's principal area of practice is in the field of professional liability, including disciplinary and wasted costs work.  She was recently chairman of the Professional Negligence Bar Association and is chair of the Bar’s Complaints Committee. Sue also handles a broad range of general commercial litigation (including civil fraud) and frequently acts in insurance disputes involving repudiation of cover and construction/policy points. Her practice also covers director-related and shareholder work. Her clients range from major insurers, banks and financial institutions to private individuals.

She has wide interlocutory, trial and Court of Appeal experience as well as having considerable arbitration and mediation expertise. She appeared in the House of Lords (in the now leading case on constructive trusts and solicitors' dishonesty) and was leading counsel in Daniels v. Thompson.  She has acted in several leading group litigation actions, including MMR,lenders' claims arising out of shared ownership schemes, film financing and the Accident Group Litigation.

Now an established silk, Sue is instructed in the leading commercial litigation of the day. Examples include her acting in the re-insurance fraud claim brought by Cable & Wireless plc against former employees and others; acting for the largest single insurer's cohort of Panel Solicitors in the multi-party managed litigation arising out of the collapse of The Accident Group Limited; acting in the litigation brought by the Football League Limited arising out of the sale of licensing rights to ONDigital; acting in high value lending claims against valuers and solicitors; acting in high value claims against financial advisers  (including accountants and actuaries) .

Court work lies at the heart of Sue's practice. Whilst particularly enjoying the cut and thrust of court work, she also relishes the earlier stages of research and preparation involved in the litigation process. In this regard she fully understands the importance of teamwork, both with regard to her juniors but also so far as the professional client is concerned. She is well used to handling and organising large teams of lawyers and experts. The lay client is always at the forefront of Sue's concerns and Sue aims to provide advice to the given issues in a manner that is clear and accessible to her instructing solicitors and lay clients alike.

Sue is also available for appointment as arbitrator and is a formally accredited and experienced mediator.

Sue has been consistently listed in Chambers & Partners Directory and the Legal 500 as a leading professional negligence practitioner. Chambers UK 2010 say that Sue Carr QC is "the whole package - she has great presence in court, is deeply incisive and is very client-friendly." Chambers & Partners 2009 comment that she is "involved in everything going". In 2008 Legal 500 describe her promotion to the first tier for the quality of her work as "much deserved". In 2008 Chambers & Partners quoted peers describing her as a broad-based professional negligence specialist “who can turn her hand to anything”. Chambers & Partners 2007 described Sue as, despite only taking Silk in 2003 "an absolutely fantastic Silk" she is an "exceptional trial lawyer" with a "sixth sense as to how the court is reading a case". "Her committment, determination and thorough hard working nature enables clients to feel she is fighting your corner". She also has "some of the best client skills at the Bar". The 2006 edition of Chambers & Partners describes her as the "very impressive" Sue Carr QC who has "rapidly grown into the best of silks". They commended this "charming litigator" for her "exceptional intellectual abilities". In Chambers 2005 Sue was described as a new silk "who has really taken off". Market sources consider her a "splendid performer and excellent cross-examiner." Legal 500 2006 states that she is "robust on her feet and good with Clients", "making a big impression". In 2004 the Legal 500, hailed her as a "rising star". She has also been described as having "immaculate presentation and court presence", recommended as "dynamic", "enthusiastic" and "very talented" (Chambers Directory 2003-04 and Legal 500 2003). By the time that Sue took silk in 2003 she was listed as the top junior in her field at the Bar and described (in Chambers Directory 2002-3) as "standing alone" amongst juniors - with "superb client skills" and "technical ability and [a] bloody minded refusal to lay down and die". The Legal 500 (2002) described her as "exceptionally good" with a practice which was "very highly rated". She was "a very highly rated junior in the solicitors', valuers', architects' and insurance brokers' fields" and "considered tenacious and good with clients". Earlier commendations from Chambers' Directory and the Legal 500 included the following: "brilliant, outstanding and always user-friendly" with "a sharp intellect and quick to get to issues"; "a fierce cross-examiner" and a "fine junior" who was "likely to go far"; a leading junior "who always puts her back into cases".

Fluent in French and German

Trained mediator

Chairman of the Professional Negligence Bar Association 2008-2010 Chairman of the Complaints Committee 2008-2011 Member of the Bar Standards Board 2008-2011 Crown Court Recorder 2009.
Sue is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR and LCLBA. Governing Bencher of the Inner Temple