Alex Platts

Email: clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk

Phone: 0161 214 1500

Year of call: 2019

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Alex joined St John’s Buildings as a pupil in October 2019 under the supervision of Alastair Wright and Daniel Metcalfe. He became a tenant in October 2020 and is quickly developing a broad civil practice, with a focus on commercial, personal injury/clinical negligence and data protection law. He also gained some experience of employment law during pupillage.

Aside from his regular court work, Alex enjoys a busy paperwork practice, and prides himself on his ability to meet tight deadlines when returning papers.

Education

  • BA (1st) and M.Phil (71) in Music, University of Cambridge (2013-14)
  • GDL (Distinction, first in year), University of Sussex (2018)
  • BPTC (Outstanding), City Law School (2019)

Memberships

  • Lincoln’s Inn
  • Northern Circuit
  • Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
  • Northern Circuit Chancery Bar Association
  • Personal Injury Bar Association

Prizes and Scholarships

  • Canon Greville Cooke prize/graduate scholarship, Christ’s College, Cambridge (2013)
  • Brougham Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2017)
  • Draper Prize, University of Sussex (2018)
  • Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2018)
  • Buchanan Prize, Lincoln’s Inn (2019)

Articles

Expertise

  • Company and Commercial

    Alex provides advices and pleadings in matters across the spectrum of commercial and chancery law, in relation to liability, quantum and procedure. Alex has acted as a junior in cases worth seven figures, and in his own right on cases worth six figures.

    Alex regularly appears in court on commercial matters, in trials, interlocutory hearings and successful appeal hearings. Alex has particular interest in consumer law, and is instructed for both claimants and defendants in litigation within this area. Alex has also been instructed as counsel in several successful mediations concerning commercial disputes.

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  • Personal Injury

    Alex accepts instructions in all areas of personal injury and clinical negligence work. He provides advices on both liability and quantum in a variety of clinical negligence, personal injury and industrial disease cases, and has experience of drafting pleadings and schedules across these areas both for claimants and defendants. He receives instructions on cases worth in excess of £25,000.

    In court, Alex regularly conducts fast-track personal injury trials for both claimants and defendants.

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  • Data and Information Law

    Alex has a particular interest in data protection law. He acts for both claimants and defendants, and receives regular instructions for advice on liability and quantum, and drafting letters of claim, letters of response and pleadings.

    When acting for claimants, Alex has twice appeared in the High Court. He is regularly instructed for infant approval advices and hearings, and interlocutory hearings.

    For defendants, Alex receives regular instructions from large companies and bodies facing claims, and had successfully had data breach claims dismissed at trial.

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