Sona Mehta

Overview

Sona joined The City Law School in June 2006 as a lecturer on the Legal Practice Course. Her teaching includes Business Law and Practice, Drafting, Media Law & Practice, Commercial Law and Legal Skills. Sona has a particular interest in privacy and data protection matters, featuring on various podcasts and speaking on privacy matters both in the UK and in India.  Sona is also a consultant solicitor at Osborne & Wise, advising clients on data protection.  She is also a keen advocate of mentoring, running and promoting staff and student programmes whilst also pushing forward the EDI agenda. 

Prior to joining The City Law School, Sona was Staff Attorney at Blockbuster Entertainment Limited from 2002, where she was one of three in-house counsel providing legal advice on operational, advertising, consumer and general commercial matters. She was also responsible for providing regular in house training for the Marketing and Operations teams

Sona qualified and practised as a solicitor at Bird & Bird in the Company/Commercial department before joining Blockbuster.

Sona is currently an external examiner at the University of Wolverhampton and Arden University. She has previously been an external examiner for BPP, De Montfort University and for the Qualified Lawyers' Transfer Test at the College of Law.

Sona is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Law Society and also a member of the Institute for Cyber Security at City, University of London.

Qualifications

• LLM International Business Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, 1994 - 1995
• BA (Hons) Accounting and Law, Kingston University, United Kingdom, 1991 - 1994

Postgraduate training

• Postgraduate Diploma Legal Practice Course, University of Law, London, United Kingdom, 1995 - 1996

Employment

• Non-Executive Director, London Community Bank, United Kingdom, September 2025 - present
• Data Protection Consultant, Osborne & Wise, United Kingdom, September 2025 - present
• External Examiner, Arden University, United Kingdom, March 2023 - present
• External Examiner, University of Wolverhampton, UK, September 2020 - present

Memberships of professional organisations

• CIPP/E, CIPM, International Association of Privacy Professionals, August 2023 - present
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy, October 2019 - present
• Institute for Cyber Security, City, University of London, October 2019 - present
• Law Society of England and Wales, September 1999 - present

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