Francis Taylor Building

Alex is a seasoned public lawyer with years of high-level academic experience to underpin his practice. He has represented clients at all judicial levels including in the Supreme Court and several appearances in the Court of Appeal. He regularly acts unled in High Court matters and at public inquiries and has acted unled in Court of Appeal matters. He is a member of the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.

Alex is ranked as a leading planning junior in Legal 500 and as a top-rated junior in the Planning Law Survey. He represents the full range of planning clients including a particularly enviable list of developer clients. He frequently receives instructions from some of the UK’s foremost planning and property consultancies and has acted for high-profile national and international corporate clients including the Vidal Sassoon Group, in relation to its recent plan to open a new world-class training academy in Soho.

Alex studied at Cambridge (BA, MA) and Durham (MJur, PhD), following which he was a Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre at Durham University, where he specialised in public law and human rights. He has also held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University, University College London and UNSW, Sydney. He has published widely in academic and practitioner journals, contributed to the most recent edition of Supperstone, Goudie & Walker on Judicial Review (7th edn, LexisNexis, 2024) and co-authored a major undergraduate textbook, Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights (4th edn, Routledge, 2016).

Called to the Bar in 2017.