Barristers
Alexandra Hewitt
Barrister Overview
Alexandra has practiced at the Family Bar for 25 years.
As a specialist in family law her core areas of work are:
- Matrimonial Finance, including complex proceedings in the High Court and against leading counsel;
- Public law children matters including factitious induced illness, child death, non-accidental injury, sexual abuse and medical treatment of seriously ill children;
- Private law children matters including international surrogacy, removal from the jurisdiction, re-location and child arrangements (residence and contact).
Specialist Areas of Practice
- Care Proceedings
- Children Act
- Family Law
- Financial Remedy
- Injunctions & Committals
- International/Removal from the Jurisdiction
Lists, Panels and Memberships
Member of the Family Law Bar Association
Middle Temple Awards: Lord Diplock Scholarship; Benefactors’ Scholarship; Lord Justice Sachs Exhibition.
Notable & Reported Cases
Acted for the Applicants in the international surrogacy case of X and Y (Children), Re [2011] EWHC 3147 (Fam), before Sir Nicholas Wall, then President of the Family Division.
Re C [2020] EWCA Civ 1598
Contact Alexandra
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