Overview
Alex focusses on disputes involving government. This includes judicial review of major government decisions, economic regulation (price control reviews / licence modifications), procurement, State aid / subsidy control, human rights and trade and investment treaty disputes.
He acts for both public bodies and the private sector, with particular experience advising clients in energy, water, transport, insurance, financial services, media and telecommunications. He has worked on many of the UK’s most significant disputes involving government in the past decade.
He spent much of 2018 and 2019 on secondment at the UK Government, assisting the Department for International Trade in the establishment of its new trade law regime post-Brexit.
Alex has published over 25 articles in academic and industry journals concerning public and administrative law, as well as trade and investment law. His work has been widely cited in national parliaments, academia and by the WTO.
Alex has worked in the firm’s offices in London, Singapore and the Middle East. Before joining Linklaters, Alex served on the staff of various Members of Parliament in Australia as an advisor and speechwriter. He also worked as a researcher in international trade law at Monash University and at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.
Work Highlights
Alex has acted for clients on many of the UK’s most significant disputes involving government and regulators over the past decade, including representing:
- the operator of the National Lottery, Camelot, in its challenge to the UK government’s award of the Fourth Licence
- a group of airlines in their judicial review of the UK government’s quarantine regulations
- numerous banks in judicial reviews of Financial Ombudsman Service decisions
- the UK government on the design of various emergency responses to the pandemic and threatened litigation
- Annington Homes and Terra Firma in a multi-billion pound judicial review against the UK Ministry of Defence
- numerous clients in the energy, water and aviation sectors concerning price control reviews and licence modification challenges
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