Fountain Court Chambers
Barristers
Alexandra Whelan
- Phone+44 (0)20 7583 3335
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.fountaincourt.co.uk
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial litigation, including aviation, banking, civil fraud, the regulation of financial and level services, and public law.
Recent notable led cases include: NMC Healthcare Ltd (in administration) (subject to a deed of company arrangement) and Ors v Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC and Ors [2023] ADGMCFI 0017; Dargamo Holdings Ltd v Avonwick Holdings Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1149; and Mohamed Hassan El Haddad v Khulood Abdulla Hassan Al Rostamani [2021] EWHC 1892 (Ch).
Career
Called to the Bar of England and Wales 2016. Admitted to practice as an Australian lawyer 2011.
2017-Present: Barrister, Fountain Court Chambers
2016-2017: Pupil Barrister, Fountain Court Chambers
2013-2014: Associate (judicial assistant), Federal Court of Australia
2011-2013: Solicitor, King & Wood Mallesons (Melbourne, Australia)
Co-author (with Joshua Getzler), ‘Common Law and the Constraint of Financial Markets: Credit Rating Agencies as a Test Case’ in Kit Barker, Karen Fairweather, and Ross Grantham (eds), Private Law in the 21stCentury (Hart Publishing, 2017), ch 13.
Education
2010 Bachelor of Law (First Class Honours); Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
2015 Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction), Oxford University
2016 MPhil in Law (Distinction), Oxford University