Brick Court Chambers

Alexandra practises across all areas of Brick Court’s expertise. She joined Chambers in September 2025, following the successful completion of her pupillage under the supervision of Craig Morrison KC, Jennifer MacLeod, and Professor David Bailey.

Before coming to the bar, Alex taught Equity (the law of trusts and fiduciary obligations) to final-year Law students at the University of Cambridge. She also worked as a research assistant at Section27, a public-interest law centre in her home city of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Alex holds a summa cum laude degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she double majored in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (“PPE”) and History. She subsequently studied an accelerated Law degree at the University of Cambridge, where she achieved double first-class honours and placed first in her year in both the Law of Contract and Constitutional Law

Call: 2024

Education:

BA in History and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, University of Pennsylvania (Summa Cum Laude) (2017 – 2021)

BA in Law (with Senior Status), University of Cambridge (Double First Class) (2021 – 2023)

Bar Course, Inns of Court College of Advocacy (2023 – 2024)

Prizes and Scholarships:

University of Cambridge

Clifford Chance CJ Hamson Prize for the Law of Contract ECS Wade Prize for Constitutional Law Madeleine Jorgensen Prize (for First Class Results in Parts I and II of the Law Tripos, awarded by Lucy Cavendish College

Lincoln’s Inn

Lord Bowen Scholarship (awarded for Senior Status Law degree) Lord Mansfield Scholarship (awarded for the Bar Course)

University of Pennsylvania

Benjamin Franklin Scholar Gussie Wachs Prize (for the best undergraduate paper in American History) Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Research Fellow (Andrea Mitchell Centre for the Study of Democracy) Dean’s List

Professional experience:

Pupillage, Brick Court Chambers 2024 – 2025 Supervisor in Law, University of Cambridge (St John’s and Lucy Cavendish Colleges) (2023 – 2024) Legal Researcher, Section27 (public-interest law centre focused on the rights to healthcare and basic education under South Africa’s Constitution), Johannesburg, South Africa (2017 – 2018)