Overview
“Alys is a calm and considered barrister who always provides clear and structured advice. She is a confident and reliable advocate” – Legal 500, 2023
Alys has a busy multi-disciplinary practice and accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular emphasis on personal injury, public and administrative including police law, and commercial and property 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 and in multi-track claims. She has experience of industrial disease, Animals Act, public liability, employers’ liability, fatal accidents, injuries abroad and occupiers’ liability claims. She is willing to accept instructions on a CFA basis where appropriate and always ensures paper work is turned around quickly.
Alys regularly appears on behalf of police forces in the Magistrates and County courts, in matters ranging from disclosure in family proceedings to judicial review. She has experience acting 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. She has a busy immigration law practice, regularly appearing in the First and Upper Tier Tribunal and has acted for both Claimants and Respondents in judicial review proceedings in the High Court.
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. 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.
Alys has a growing interest in education law and is regularly instructed to act as clerk to the Independent Appeals Panel for school admissions, and has conducted training for prospective Panel members.
A native Welsh speaker, Alys is originally from 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.
Education
· Ysgol Glan-y-Mor, Pwllheli
· University of Liverpool (1st Class)
· Bar Professional Training Course, BPP Manchester (Very Competent)
Recommendations
Rising Star, Tier 1, Commercial Litigation – Legal 500 2023
Rising Star, Tier 1, Personal Injury – Legal 500 2023
Memberships
Personal Injuries Bar Association (Elected Member of the Executive Committee, Wales and Chester Circuit Representative)
