Twenty Essex

(Re)insurance; Arbitration; Civil fraud and asset tracing; Commodities and international trade; Company law; Insolvency and restructuring; Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement; Public and administrative law; Public international law; Shipping

Alicia is developing a broad practice across all of chambers’ practice areas, including commercial litigation and international arbitration.

She is currently on secondment to Pogust Goodhead, where she is working on the Mariana Dam case. This is the largest ever group action to come before the English courts, in number of claimants and financial value.

Prior to joining chambers and alongside her legal studies, Alicia spent a year working in the legal team at the Good Law Project, where she worked on several high profile environmental and public law cases, including at Court of Appeal and Supreme Court level.

She also worked as a legal researcher for the AIRE Centre, contributing to a series of papers on multinational liability for human rights and environmental harms. Alicia is hoping to develop her practice in climate change litigation and is committed to pro bono work in this area.

Before coming to the Bar, Alicia had a successful career in business. In 2016 she was listed as one of Forbes Magazine’s “30 under 30” social entrepreneurs.

Alicia has a double first-class degree in Classics, from Wadham College, Oxford, where she was awarded several academic scholarships and prizes. She completed her GDL with distinction at City University, London.

French (proficient); Spanish (conversational)