Alys Williams

Year of Call:

2016

“Alys is meticulous and thorough in her advice and approach. Her advice is beyond her year of call.” – Legal 500, 2023

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“…very good at unpicking complex issues in order to understand the key issues on a matter. She is calm and considered and is certainly very well prepared for all conferences and court appearances” – Legal 500, 2024

Alys has a busy multi-disciplinary practice and accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular emphasis on personal injury and public and administrative including education and police law.

She regularly receives repeat instructions in both an advisory and advocacy capacity across a range of personal injury matters, on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants in high value claims. She has experience of industrial disease, Animals Act, public liability, employers’ liability, injuries abroad and occupiers’ liability claims. She has extensive experience in fatal accident claims.

Alys has a growing professional discipline practice and has acted as legal-advisor including for the Education Workforce Council Wales. She is also regularly instructed in fitness to practice proceedings on behalf of the NMC and has been appointed an Independent Member of Police Misconduct Hearings.

As legal advisor, she also regularly acts as clerk to the Independent Appeals Panel for school admissions and exclusions, and has conducted training for prospective Panel members across Wales.

Alys regularly appears on behalf of police forces in Wales in the Magistrates and County courts, across operational and litigation matters. She has acted in matters ranging from disclosure in family proceedings to judicial review. She acts as Independent Legal Counsel in the seize and sift of legally privileged material, and has acted on behalf of the police in applications for a number of protective orders including sexual harm prevention orders and stalking protection orders, in which she has a particular interest and specialism.

A native Welsh speaker, Alys is originally from Pwllheli, North Wales and attended the University of Liverpool. She is happy to accept instructions, conduct hearings and conferences and advise through the medium of Welsh and is keen to develop her practice by doing so.

Education

LLB Law, University of Liverpool (1^st Class)
Bar Professional Training Course, BPP Manchester (Very Competent)

Recommendations

Rising Star, Tier 1, Commercial Litigation – Legal 500 2024

Rising Star, Tier 1, Personal Injury – Legal 500 2024

Appointments

Fee-Paid Judge of the Employment Tribunal (Wales)

Fee-Paid Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal, Health Education and Social Care Chamber

Independent Member, Police Misconduct Hearings and Police Misconduct Appeals

Administrative and Public

Alys has a busy administrative and public law practice. She has built on her experience in judicial review in immigration matters for both claimants and the Secretary of State, to judicial review more widely, including on behalf of police forces in Wales and the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

She regularly acts for police forces in Wales in both operational and litigation matters, in proceedings relating to various civil orders, including domestic violence protection orders, sexual harm prevention orders and stalking protection orders, where she has a particular interest. She has been instructed numerous times in applications for disclosure of family court proceedings. She has also appeared on behalf of HMRC and the police in confiscation proceedings and has successfully obtained closure order in the Magistrates Court in respect of both business and residential premises. She has extensive experience of Police Property Act claims.

She has acted for both the Welsh Government and various local authorities in public law matters across a wide spectrum of subject matters including the extent of the local authority’s duty under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998.

She has been instructed multiple times to act as a legal clerk to the Independent School Appeals Panel, on admission and exclusion appeals, including for appeals through the medium of Welsh.

Company, Commercial and Insolvency

Alys has acted in and advised on a wide variety of commercial matters. She has acted in numerous claims involving contractual disputes and has significant experience dealing with claims/counterclaims alleging misrepresentation and disputing the validity of agreements based on mistake, undue influence or illegality. She has acted from small claim to multi-track level in claims of this nature. She also regularly appears in property disputes ranging from possession, disrepair, particularly for Defendants, to complex disputes on commercial leases and construction.

Alys has acted in and advised on a wide variety of commercial and insolvency matters and is keen to develop this area of her practice.

Examples of her work in this area include pursuing and opposing applications to set aside statutory demands for both individuals and companies, and advising on the enforcement of agreements regulated by the Consumer Credit Act, as well as bankruptcy and administration proceedings.

She has acted in numerous claims involving contractual disputes and has significant experience dealing with claims/counterclaims alleging misrepresentation, and disputing the validity of agreements based on mistake, undue influence or illegality. She has acted from small claim to multi-track level in claims involving issues of reasonable care and skill in contracts for supply of services and acted for both Claimants and Defendants in a number of Consumer Rights Act 2015 cases.

Alys was named a ‘Rising Star’ in the field of Commercial Litigation in the Legal 500 in 2023 and 2024.

Education

Alys has been instructed multiple times to act as a legal clerk to the Independent School Appeals Panel, on admission and exclusion appeals, including for appeals through the medium of Welsh. She is keen to develop this area of her practice across all areas of education law. Her practice has a growing focus on ALN and she is one of the co-authors of the Nodi for Wales.

Employment

Alys has acted on behalf of Claimants and Defendants in the Employment Tribunal, across the spectrum of claims relating to discrimination, unfair dismissal, victimisation and harassment, as well as unlawful deduction of wages, and is happy to accept instructions to advise or appear in the Tribunal in preliminary and substantive hearings. She is keen to receive instructions through the medium of Welsh in this area.

Housing

Alys has a developing and busy disrepair practice acting on behalf of a number of local authorities and housing associations. She regularly appears in claims from small claims to fast track level in these matters, as well as interlocutory hearings, particularly allocation, and is happy to accept instructions to prepare pleadings. She is well versed in the changes brought about by the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 and has advised private and social landlords of their obligations under the new Act.

Alys has acted in possession claims of all levels for both Claimants and Defendants across issues of anti-social behaviour, rent arrears, and other breaches of tenancy, in addition to advising on unlawful eviction claims. Alys has advised and acted for social landlords across the spectrum of anti-social behaviour, including committal proceedings, and has dealt numerously with the public sector equality duty under the Equality Act 2010, Article 8 and proportionality defences.

Alys has acted for various police forces across Wales in actions brought in the Magistrates Court for closure orders of both business and residential premises.

Personal Injury

Alys has a varied and busy personal injury practice. She regularly acts for Claimant and Defendant at both fast track and multi-track level.

She has experience of industrial disease, Animals Act, public liability, employers’ liability, fatal accidents, injuries abroad and occupiers’ liability claims. She has advised on psychiatric injury and secondary victim claims and on questions of capacity. She has experience of dealing with claims involving allegations of fundamental dishonesty.

Alys was named a ‘Rising Star’ in the field of Personal Injury in the Legal 500 2023 and 2024.

Police law

Police Law

Alys has appeared for police forces in proceedings relating to various civil orders, including domestic violence protection orders and breaches of domestic violence protection orders, sexual harm prevention orders and confiscation orders. She is keen to develop this area of her practice.

Professional Discipline

Alys is regularly instructed on behalf of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in fitness to practise proceedings. She has recently been appointed an Independent Member of Police Misconduct Hearings and Police Misconduct Appeals and has acted as legal advisor to the Education Workforce Council Wales committee.

Property and Land

Alys has advised on and acted in disputes on surrender of lease, particularly commercial leases, relief from forfeiture, boundary disputes, proprietary estoppel, trespassers, and common intention constructive trusts. She has successfully obtained injunctions requiring the treatment of Japanese knotweed. She has acted on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants in numerous building disputes. She has advised on whether a purported tenant is occupying by virtue of a tenancy at will or a licence. She has experience advising on the prospective removal of entries on the Land Registry.

Wills, Trusts and Probate

Wills, Trust and Probate

Alys accepts instructions in this area of law. She has experience applying for removal of ineffective executors and advising on the construction, validity and variation of wills and trusts.

Contact

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