Profile: Having started his career in the civil sector and then completing his pupillage at 2 Paper Buildings, Alex accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work. In particular the following:

• Criminal – Defending and prosecuting in all types of offences both on his own and as Junior Counsel including section 18 allegations to complex frauds and serious sexual offences.
• Family – Ancillary Relief, Private and Public Law children proceedings and applications for injunctive relief.
• Civil – Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act applications, Housing, Contractual disputes, Personal injury and Bankruptcy.

Alex has been appointed to the Attorney-General’s Unified list of Prosecuting Advocates as well as the Serious Fraud Office Panel of Counsel and regularly receives instructions in complex frauds from various Government Departments including: RCPO, DWP, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Department of Health.

He appears in confiscation enforcement proceedings on behalf of both the Central Confiscation Unit of the CPS Organised Crime Division and the Enforcement Task Force of RCPO, including hearings before Magistrates’ Courts, the Crown Court, the Court of Appeal and on many occasions the Administrative Court.

As a member of the Criminal Bar Association and the Young Fraud Lawyers Association he has presented seminars on a number of topics including the bad character and hearsay provisions of the 2003 Criminal Justice Act.

Qualifications: LLB – University of Leicester

Some notable criminal cases have included:
R v. Seager;Blatch – Junior instructed by BERR before Court of Appeal on the issue of calculating the criminal benefit of a Company Director in confiscation proceedings
R v Gregory Graham – Junior for 1st defendant in high profile case where cocaine was imported within live Labrador dogs.
R v David Taylor – Junior for the Crown in complex benefit fraud involving over 100 witnesses.
R v. Martin Hooper – Junior for defence in trial concerning series of armed cashi in transit robberies involving employees of Securicor
R v. Tezira Olalobo & Ors – Junior for the Crown in a DWP fraud involving a member of staff diverting funds to third party bank accounts
R v. Harrison & Primrose – Junior for the Crown in a case involving payments made to a Director of an NHS Trust from a property developer