Alice Dobbie

Alice is a specialist in personal injury, clinical negligence and costs. Her work is predominantly in the High Court and she is instructed as a sole junior against King’s Counsel. She is consistently recommended as a leading junior, with a strong academic background, substantial judicial experience and outstanding advocacy skills.

She exclusively represents defendants (typically government departments, NHS trusts and most major insurers). A number of her cases involve jurisdictional challenges.

Her principal areas of practice are:

- fraud/exaggeration in high value cases (including where fraud allegations attach to solicitors or experts, as well as claimants)

- complex brain injury cases, including disputed traumatic brain injuries

- neurosurgery and spinal surgery

- complex regional pain syndrome

- military claims

- cases requiring expert engineering evidence

Oxford University MA

Called 2007 (Inner Temple)

Recorder since 2019

Member of the Bar Standards Board Independent Decision-Making Body (2021-4)