Alex Aspinwall joined FOURTEEN as a tenant following a three-month probationary tenancy ending in December 2022. He now welcomes instructions in all areas of family law and has experience acting for clients at first instance and appellate levels.
Alex is regularly instructed in complex financial remedy proceedings acting both alone and as junior counsel. Alex has advised and appeared in proceedings involving issues of 3rd party intervenors (individuals and corporate bodies), disputes as to assets held under trust and property held internationally. He regularly appears in First Appointments, FDRs, and Final Hearings as well as developing a busy practice in providing pre-action advice.
Alex has a particular interest in cases involving an international element. Alex has recently acted in numerous Forum and Jurisdiction disputes and prides himself on providing robust and pragmatic advice at an early stage of proceedings. International disputes concerning Forum, Jurisdiction and application of the DMPA 1973 are a topic in which Alex has an active academic interest, and he has provided training/lectures on the same.
Alex regularly provides seminars and training sessions to solicitors and welcomes the opportunity to engage with the academic side of family law in the form of unusual cases or novel issues.
Alex has appeared in a number of reported cases. Most recently, Alex represented the applicant mother in AB v CD [2025] EWHC 3657 (Fam) before Mr Justice Williams. The hearing marked the culmination of long running proceedings and Alex obtained findings of domestic abuse against the father leading to a favourable contact order.
Alex has experience conducting protracted fact-finding and final hearings in private child law proceedings. He recently represented the applicant father in the reported matter of Re A-M & Anor [2023] EWFC 124, a case involving significant allegations of abuse across multiple jurisdictions. He further appeared in the reported matter of The Mother v The Father [2024] EWFC 139.
Alex is also Direct Access qualified.
Called 2021
Before completing pupillage, Alex was a paralegal at boutique Mayfair solicitors Peters May and assisted on a broad range of family law matters. Alex maintains a strong academic interest in family law stretching back to his research thesis and time spent as a part-time family law academic at Durham University.
FLBA
Inner Temple
Durham University- First Class Honours Durham University- MJur Research Masters focusing on the discretionary operation of section 8 Child Arrangements Orders. Full thesis available at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13950/ BBP Manchester- BTPC (Very Competent)