St Philips Chambers

Business & Property

Alexander Bradford joined chambers in October 2024 upon completing a specialist Business and Property pupillage under the supervision of Ali Tabari, Simon Clegg, Kirsty White, John Aldis, and Gavin McLeod.

Alexander’s practice encompasses all aspects of Chambers’ Business and Property work, with a balanced caseload spanning commercial, property, and insolvency matters. He combines skilled advocacy with meticulous attention to paper-based instructions, ensuring comprehensive client support.

Recent highlights include:

• Acted (as sole counsel) for an individual debtor against a KC in a 2-day insolvency trial. The debtor sought to go behind a judgment debt on grounds of undue influence, duress, and an unfair relationship under the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
• Acted (as sole counsel) for a neighbour in a boundary and rights-of-way dispute from beginning to end, from pre-action advice to drafting the pleadings, attending interim hearings and trial. The claim settled on the day of trial.
• Appeared (as sole counsel) successfully in the High Court in an application for an urgent Validation Order shortly before Christmas for payment of staff salaries.
• Advised (led) a large healthcare provider on contractual termination scenarios in respect of a 500-plus page public sector contract, with potential liabilities of over £100m.
• Advised (led) a registered provider of social housing on claims for breach of contract and unjust enrichment in the High Court, following a forensic review into the evidence for each occupant of each room in the properties used by the provider.
• Advised and represented (as sole counsel) consumers and businesses in various consumer disputes, including on complex issues of transfer of ownership and the nemo dat rule, claims arising out of the CCRs 2013 and CPUT 2008, and disputes involving mercantile agents and other third parties.
• Acted (as sole counsel) for several universities in successfully obtaining strike out of claims brought by former students.

Called to the Bar in 2022.

LLB (Hons), Queen Mary University of London Including a year abroad studying EU and international law at the University of Leuven, Belgium. LLM/BPTC (Distinction), BPP University.

Scholarships and prizes:

Dissertation Prize, Queen Mary University of London Advocacy Scholarship, BPP University