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Alexandra Tampakopoulos 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, the public inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire, the Manchester Arena bombings, the Covid 19 pandemic and most recently the Thirlwall Inquiry.

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, as well as Health & Safety, in the 2025 Chambers & Partners UK legal directory. She is a specialist defence advocate and also serves as Co-Head of the Health & Safety Practice Group. She was also nominated for Health and Safety Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards in both 2018 and 2024, and for Public Law Junior of the Year by The Legal 500 in 2018.

Alexandra also speaks fluent Russian and is 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.

Year of Call 2007.

Russian.

Attorney General’s Civil Panel C; Criminal Bar Association; Health & Safety Lawyers' Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

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.