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Alexandra Tampakopoulos
Position
Alexandra is a leading criminal regulatory and inquest & public inquiry barrister. Her practice has built upon her years of experience defending and prosecuting serious crime.
Alexandra has developed her expertise in inquests & public inquiries through her involvement in numerous complex and high profile cases including in relation to the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Hillsborough stadium disaster, the ‘SAS Inquest’ involving the death of three army reservists from heat illness in the Brecon Beacons and most recently the public inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire and the Manchester Arena bombings.
Alexandra has a parallel expertise in Health & Safety, Fire Safety and Food Safety and is a leading defence specialist. She has significant experience advising and acting for individuals and major corporate clients across a wide range of industries including Energy, Utilities, Construction, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Food.
Alexandra is ranked as a Leading Individual for Inquests and Public Inquiries and Health & Safety in the 2022 Chambers & Partners UK legal directory. She was also nominated as Health and Safety Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2018 and Public Law Junior of the Year by The Legal 500 in 2018.
Alexandra also speaks fluent Russian and is often instructed in matters requiring her Russian language skills and specialist knowledge of Russia and the CIS region.
Before coming to the Bar Alexandra lived in Russia for several years where she interned for Human Rights Watch and then worked at BP.
Career
Year of Call 2007
Languages
Russian – fluent
Memberships
- Attorney General’s Civil Panel C
- Criminal Bar Association
- Health & Safety Lawyers’ Association
- Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
- British Russian Law Association
Education
Godolphin and Latymer School; The School of Slavonic and East European Studies; University College London, Russian and History (BA (Hons)); The London School of Economics (MSc), Human Rights.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Health and safety
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 32 Hare Court continues to advise and defend a broad range of corporate clients, as well as individual directors, on proceedings by regulators and enforcement bodies such as the Health and Safety Executive. Alexandra Tampakopoulos is instructed by Seaway Heavy Lifting Ltd in relation to a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive arising from an incident which injured seven employees installing an offshore wind turbine in the North Sea. James Buchanan is defending two paramedics who are charged with gross negligence manslaughter after a series of incidents that culminated in a vulnerable member of the public’s death.
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Alexandra Tampakopoulos – 2 Hare Court ‘She is exceptionally thorough and astute in her assessment of cases.’
Alongside 2 Hare Court‘s extensive work across criminal and health and safety work, the set also has experience in complex and highly significant inquests and inquiries. Jonathan Laidlaw KC represented Harley Facades in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Alexandra Tampakopoulos specialises in cases concerning state institutions – she represented Oxford Health Foundation NHS trust in an inquest into the death of a mother and daughter who jumped in front of the train; the trust assessed the mother’s mental health seven weeks before the incident and deemed her not to need further support. On the junior side, Nikita McNeill is representing the Welsh government in the COVID-19 Inquiry. Paul Renteurs appears in inquests concerning deaths in custody and care homes.