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Marte Alnaes

Work Department

Crime, Civil, Family

Position

Marte Alnaes accepts instructions in a wide range of areas, including Crime, Regulatory, Civil and Family.

Marte completed her pupillage under the supervision of Chloe Fairley, during which she experienced a wide range of work and practice areas such as Crime, Family and the GMC. She has since built on that experience and now has a busy practice frequently dealing with factually complicated cases involving complex areas of law.

Marte takes pride in her approachability, building rapport with her clients. She focuses on putting them at ease during all stages of the court proceedings.

Marte is originally from Norway and as such is fluent in most of the Scandinavian languages. She has a particular interest in languages and studied German in school and at college and completed a semester of Portuguese while she studied for her LLB.

Crime

Marte defends and prosecutes in trials concerning serious violence, drugs offences, acquisitive crime, domestic violence, harassment and sexual offences. She also undertakes the full range of interlocutory work involved in such proceedings.

Civil

Marte frequently represents those involved in civil litigation arising out of road traffic accidents where either or both liability and quantum have been in dispute. She has a proven track record of dealing with credit-hire cases and also a growing bank of knowledge and experience of claims concerning breach of contract.

Marte has experience of both small claims and fast-track proceedings and has provided written advice in a number of different types of proceedings.

Family

Marte regularly accepts instructions in applications for non-molestation orders and child arrangements orders. Her experience of family litigation involves both written work and court appearances.

She was recently instructed by Durham County Council in a lengthy public law case, and is used to handling cases involving large amounts of papers and complicated factual backgrounds.

Regulatory

Marte has an emerging practice in Regulatory Law having been, by way of example, recently instructed by Scarborough Borough Council to represent their interests in the Crown Court in respect of enforcement proceedings being brought in respect of multiple breaches of the selective licencing regulations.

Marte is also regularly instructed by Social Work England, the regulatory body for social workers. She appears both in interim hearings and in the substantial final hearings and frequently assists in drafting of documents and advising on the law, procedure and the factual strength of cases.

Languages

Most Scandinavian, German, some Portuguese

Memberships

CPS level 3 Prosecutor