Alex Price-Marmion

Year of Call
2011
Devil Masters
Lisa Henderson KC
Kate Dowdalls KC
Ronnie Renucci KC

Contact

alexpricemarmion@amadvocates.co.uk Telephone number available from Clerks upon request

Practice Profile

Alex has over 10 years' experience as a barrister and latterly as an advocate. She has been instructed in numerous cases both as lead counsel and as junior.

Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2002, Alex appeared in cases on London’s South Eastern Circuit including the Royal Courts of Justice and the Old Bailey.

Since her admission to the Scottish Bar in 2011, Alex’s cases have included clinical negligence, serious road traffic head injuries and injuries to children among a wide range of personal injury cases. She has also been instructed in serious criminal cases, successfully defending a grandfather accused of historic sexual abuse. Alex has particular experience in cross-examining expert witnesses, from memory expert psychologists to accident reconstruction experts. Alex also has experience of handling a complicated and sensitive cross-jurisdictional family case.

During her devilling, Alex worked predominantly on personal injury claims, particularly catastrophic injury claims and clinical negligence cases with an emphasis on cerebral palsy claims. She has been trained by the first advocate team in Scotland to achieve a notable periodic payment settlement worth millions of pounds. Alex has had exposure to high value matrimonial cases and closely followed cases in the Court of Session on adoption rights and the Hague Convention. Her criminal experience is extensive, ranging from internal theft to long firm fraud as well as serious violent and sexual crimes and drug trafficking.

Alex is a tutor on the University of Edinburgh School of Law Diploma course. She regularly judges student moots and has assisted with advocacy training for Middle Temple. She is happy to provide in-house seminars.

Education & Professional Career to Date

MA in Classics (St John’s College, Oxford); Graduate Diploma in Law (City University London)

Publications & Seminars

RTAs and AREs: An update in road traffic accident case law with a focus on the best use of accident reconstruction experts