Trinity Chambers

Alice specialises in housing, property and public law. She has recently returned to Trinity Chambers having spent three years working in-house in the Dispute Resolution team of a Top 100 UK law firm.

Prior to her hiatus from the self-employed Bar Alice was ranked by Legal 500 as a "Rising Star" in Property & Construction, Social Housing and Administrative & Public Law.

Alice is a member of the Attorney General's ‘B’ Panel of Counsel.

Housing

Alice has over ten year’s experience working with the social housing sector. She was described in the Legal 500 as “the go-to Barrister in Newcastle for this kind of work”. Her practice covers all aspects of landlord and tenant and social housing litigation, including:

• Possession
• Homelessness & allocations
• Anti-social behaviour
• Unlawful eviction
• Disrepair & housing conditions
• Tenancy fraud
• Succession & assignment
• Equality Act & Human Rights

Business & Property

Alice’s practice in the Business & Property Courts includes:

• Landlord & tenant (commercial & residential)
• Forfeiture & relief
• Nuisance
• Trespass
• Business tenancies
• Covenants & easements
• Rights of way
• Boundary disputes
• TOLATA claims

She also appears in the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) and the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) in matters including leasehold disputes, service charges, HMO/property licensing, rent repayment orders, improvement notices and prohibition orders under the Housing Act 2004.

Public Law & Judicial Review

Alice's public law practice covers local government, social security, housing and homelessness, housing benefit and council tax schemes, anti-social behaviour, community care, environmental law and prison law.

Alice has significant experience in cases concerning alleged breaches of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010.

APPOINTMENTS

• Attorney General's Regional B Panel of Counsel (2021 - 2029)
• Attorney General's Regional C Panel of Counsel (2018 - 2021)
• Equality & Human Rights Commission Panel of Counsel for England & Wales (2019 - 2023)

PUBLICATIONS

• The ‘reasonable recipient’ test and possession notices (Pease v Carter), Lexis PSL, 20th February 2020.
• Conviction for managing an unlicensed HMO quashed on appeal: an application must be decided before instigating a prosecution, LondonPropertyLicensing.co.uk, 19th July 2018.
• The right to rent and local authorities’ duties (R v Milton Keynes Council), Lexis PSL,19th January 2018.
• Proportionality and Private Landlords, Solicitor’s Journal 2016, 160(36) Supp (Bar Focus), 24-27.
• Ali v United Kingdom: Homelessness Appeals and the Right to a Fair Trial, Journal of Housing Law 2016, Vol.19(2), 38-42.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Social Housing Law Association
• Constitutional & Administrative Law Bar Association
• Property Bar Association

EDUCATION & AWARDS

• Sir Joseph Priestly Scholarship 2013- The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship 2012 - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• BPTC - College of Law, London Bloomsbury
• LLB 2.1 (Hons)- The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Alice is qualified to accept instructions directly from members of the public through the Direct Access scheme.

Social Housing Law Association

Property Bar Association

Constitutional & Administrative Law Bar Association

Housing Law Practitioners’ Association

Sir Joseph Priestly Scholarship 2013- The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Internship Award 2013- The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship 2012 - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Exhibition Award (BPTC) 2012- The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Best New Student Pro-Bono Activity 2012 - LawWorks/Attorney-General’s Awards

2011-2013 Bar Professional Training Course (Part-time) “Very Competent”, College of Law, London Bloomsbury

2007-2010 LLB (Hons) 2.1, The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne