Alex has over 20 years' experience as a barrister and advocate. She has acted in a wide variety of cases both as junior and lead counsel.

Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2002, Alex appeared in cases in the Royal Courts of Justice, at the Old Bailey and throughout London’s South Eastern Circuit. Her criminal experience is extensive, ranging from internal theft to long firm fraud as well as serious violent and sexual crimes and drug trafficking.

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 was trained by the first advocate team in Scotland to achieve a notable periodic payment settlement worth millions of pounds.

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 been instructed in serious criminal defence cases, including the successful defence of a grandfather accused of historic sexual abuse. Alex has particular experience in cross-examining expert witnesses, from memory expert psychologists to accident reconstruction experts.

In 2021, Alex successfully defended a nurse in a 2 week-long hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Tribunal, instructed by the Royal College of Nursing.
In 2022, Alex was appointed as an Advocate Depute in Crown Office and conducts serious High Court criminal trials and Commissions. She has had trauma-informed practice training and is well practiced in taking evidence from vulnerable witnesses.

Alex was a Criminal Court Practice 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.