Alexander Chandler KC

Practice Areas

Alex is a specialist in high-value matrimonial finance/ financial remedies, involving complex corporate and trust structures. Regularly instructed in intervener claims and cases involving an overlap between family and civil law. Also specialises in Trusts of Land (TLATA) and Schedule 1 cases. International work: has advised in cases before courts of Jersey, Gibraltar and Bermuda.

Alex sits as a Recorder, Arbitrator and is often instructed as a private FDR judge.

Recent cases: BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87, FN v AC (Financial Remedy – Agreement) [2019] EWHC 3806 (Fam), Shokrollah-Babaee v Shokrollah-Babae [2019] EWHC 2135 (Fam), 1 WLR 6517, BC v BG (Financial Remedies) [2019] EWFC 7; [2019] 2 FLR 337, AB v CD (Jurisdiction: Global Maintenance Orders) [2017] EWHC 3164 (Fam) [2018] 2 FLR 150; R v B Capita Trustees [2017] EWFC 33 [2017] 3 FCR 519; R v R (Circumvention of Sanctions Regime) [2015] EWCA Civ 796; [2016] Fam 153; [2016] 2 WLR 127

Career

MA(Hons), Hertford College, Oxford. Dip Law, City University Law School. Called 1995. Silk 2022

Arbitrator (MCIArb), Recorder (Family Ct and Crown Ct). Formerly panel member of Bar Disciplinary Panel (2016-2020) and DDJ (2013-2021). Private FDR judge. Editorial board, “Financial Remedies Journal”

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association, International Academy of Family Lawyers

Publications

Author of “Dictionary of TLATA and Inheritance Claims: (forthcoming), Contributing editor to: “Resolution Guide to Cohabitee Claims (2nd edition)”, “Halsbury’s Laws of England”, vol 5(4) Children and the Law. Regular contributor to publications including “Family Law”. Blogs at familybrief.org.