ALEXANDER J. SCOTT-PHILLIPS

HEAD OF CHAMBERS

CALLED 1995 (Inner Temple)

Practice Areas:-

• Criminal Law (both Defence and Prosecution)
• Family Law (both Public and Private)
• Personal Injury
• Planning
• General Common Law

Educated at Rugby School and Durham University, Alexander was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1995.

Before University, Alexander spent his Gap Year working as a Solicitors Clerk and prior to Bar School, he spent a year working for the Guardian Newspaper educational supplement.

Alexander is a founder member of Kent Chambers.

Alexander’s practice is broadly based in all areas of common law.

In Family matters Alexander acts for both Applicants and Respondents with a particular emphasis on children’s welfare.

In criminal matters he is briefed by Defence solicitors and the CPS. He specialises in driving offences, domestic assaults and dishonesty cases. He is also undertakes work for the DWP, Customs and Excise and the Health and Safety Executive.

In Civil matters Alexander acts for both Claimants and Respondents, especially in the areas of Personal Injury, Contract Law and Commercial litigation.

Other areas of practice relate to Prison Disciplinary Hearings, Planning and Construction.

In 2004 Alexander spent a year in the West Indies at New Street Chambers in Trinidad. He assisted a former colleague from Bar School set up a new Barrister’s Chambers, with particular emphasis on the conversion of Attorneys to Barristers-at-law. The commercially based Chambers specialised in Contract, Shipping Law and Industrial Disputes.

Alexander has been a Pupil Master since 2002. He is a member of the Kent Bar Mess, the Criminal Bar Association, the Family Law Bar Association and the European Bar.