Alexander Echlin > Hailsham Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Alexander Echlin

020 7643 5000 alexander.echlin@hailshamchambers.com

Position

Alexander accepts instructions in professional negligence, clinical negligence, costs, and commercial disputes. He frequently acts in trials, interlocutory applications, inquests, and CCMCs.

Alexander acted, with Simon Howarth, for the successful Defendant / Respondent in the Court of Appeal in Anderson v Sense Network Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1395. The case concerned: i) the scope of a principal’s liability for the actions of his appointed representative under s.39 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; ii) common law vicarious liability; iii) the definition of ‘collective investment schemes’ under s.235 of FSMA 2000.

Within the professional negligence field, Alexander has a particular expertise in claims involving solicitors and construction professionals (including architects). In July 2020 he successfully defended a claim brought against a firm of solicitors alleging that they should have advised the Claimants to apply for Multiple Dwellings Relief on Stamp Duty Land Tax. This was one of the first such claims to have gone to trial.

Before coming to the Bar, Alexander worked at Dickinson, one of the world’s best-known dealers of fine art, as a specialist in Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawings, and sculpture.

Career

Called 2017

Languages

Education

City, University of London, Bar Professional Training Course (Very Competent) (2016-17)

City, University of London, Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction) (2015-16)

New College, University of Oxford, MST, Modern British and European History (2012-13)

Christ Church, University of Oxford, BA, History (2009-12)