Practice Areas
Alexandra Tampakopoulos is a leading criminal regulatory and inquest & public inquiry barrister, building on years of experience defending and prosecuting serious crime.
She has developed expertise in inquests & public inquiries through involvement in complex, high-profile cases including the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Hillsborough disaster, the ‘SAS Inquest’ into three army reservists’ deaths, and the public inquiries into Grenfell Tower, Manchester Arena, Covid-19, and the Thirlwall Inquiry.
Alexandra also specialises in Health & Safety, Fire Safety and Food Safety, with extensive experience advising individuals and major corporate clients across industries including Energy, Utilities, Construction, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Food.
She is ranked as a Leading Individual for Inquests and Public Inquiries, and Health & Safety, in the 2025 Chambers & Partners UK directory. A specialist defence advocate, she is Co-Head of the Health & Safety Practice Group. She was nominated for Health and Safety Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards (2018, 2024), and for Public Law Junior of the Year by The Legal 500 (2018).
Alexandra speaks fluent Russian and is instructed in matters requiring her language skills and specialist knowledge of Russia and the CIS region.
Before joining the Bar, Alexandra lived in Russia for several years, interning for Human Rights Watch and later working at BP.
Professional Memberships
Attorney General’s Civil Panel C
Criminal Bar Association
Health & Safety Lawyers Association
Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
