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EC1N 6RY
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Alexandra Scott
Position
Alexandra is an incisive, engaging and persuasive advocate.
Specialising in criminal defence, Alexandra is known for her easy manner with lay clients and building strong working relationships with instructing solicitors. She is particularly adept in her sensitive handling of vulnerable clients and understands the complexities of issues posed in their cases.
Throughout her practice, Alexandra has been instructed on a wide range of sensitive, demanding and high-profile cases, from conspiracies to supply sub-machine guns through to high-value frauds. Alexandra has extensive experience of cases involving high volumes of evidence, disclosure, legal argument, expert evidence and ‘cut-throat’ defences.
Alexandra has experience of acting in civil and criminal POCA proceedings, extradition, licensing, and health and safety cases.
Alexandra is ranked as a Leading Junior in both Crime and Fraud: Crime in the Legal 500, 2023.
Career
Called: 2010
Memberships
- Fraud Lawyers Association;
- Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association;
- Female Fraud Forum;
- Women in Criminal Law;
- Criminal Bar Association.
Education
- Politics, Philosophy and Economics BA (Hons) Oxon
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Alexandra Scott – Mountford Chambers ‘Alexandra has excellent client care skills, a great court presence and is very thorough in her preparations.’
Mountford Chambers, ‘fast becoming one of the most highly regarded criminal sets’, offers considerable strength in depth. Christopher Henley KC is ‘a great strategist and a first class advocate’ who is well known for his experience in gang-related murder trials; he has also recently defended a young man charged with various terrorism offences, having been said to have possessed and distributed a large volume of terrorist propaganda. Alexandra Scott has a ‘great court presence‘ and is known for her skill in handling offences arising out of organised crime groups.
London Bar > Fraud: crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Alexandra Scott – Mountford Chambers ‘Alexandra is a very thoughtful, clear and concise advocate who is able to grasp complex material and provide excellent advice. On her feet she is persuasive and logical. She is personable and this comes across in her advocacy – she is clearly liked by juries.’
Mountford Chambers hosts a ‘fine mix of some of the best barristers in London’ and is fast gaining a strong reputation for its fraud offering. Colin Aylott KC acted for the defence in a case involving two directors of peer-to-peer lending platform Collateral (UK) Limited, who are alleged to have fraudulently claimed to investors that the platform was regulated by the FCA – the two brothers received sentences totalling eight years. Alexandra Scott, ‘a thoughtful, clear and concise advocate’, has considerable experience in relation to a variety of fraud, money laundering and trading standards offences.