Alexander Chandler KC

Practice Areas

Alex is a specialist in high-value financial remedies, involving complex corporate and trust structures. Regularly instructed in intervener claims and cases involving an overlap between family and civil law. He also specialises in Trusts of Land (TLATA) and Schedule 1 cases. Has advised internationally, e.g. in cases before courts of Jersey, Gibraltar and Bermuda.

Sits as a Recorder with s.9(1) authorisation, arbitrator and a private FDR judge.

Recent cases: Cummings v Fawn [2023] EWHC 830, BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87, FN v AC (Financial Remedy – Agreement) [2019] EWHC 3806 (Fam), Shokrollah-Babaee [2019] 1 WLR 6517, BC v BG [2019] 2 FLR 337, AB v CD (Global Maintenance Orders) [2018] 2 FLR 150; R v B Capita Trustees [2017] EWFC 33; R v R (Circumvention of Sanctions Regime) [2015] EWCA Civ 796; [2016] Fam 153.

Career

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

Bar Disciplinary Tribunal panel member (2016-2020). Family Ct and Crown Ct recorder, authorised to sit as deputy High Court Judge (2023). First ever family law Fellow of CIArb. Editorial board, “Financial Remedies Journal”. Nominated family silk of year Legal 500 (2023).

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association, International Academy of Family Lawyers, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

Publications

Lead author “Dictionary of TLATA and Inheritance Claims”, Contributor to Halsbury’s Laws of England”, vol 5(4) Children and the Law. Regular contributor to publications including “Family Law”. Blogs at familybrief.org.