Alice Kuzmenko

Alice brings her clinical negligence experience when representing clients at inquests, recently acting for NHS Trusts and medical professionals. Alice was instructed as junior counsel to the Guildford Pub Bombings Inquests.

She is currently part of the team drafting the second edition of ‘The Inquests Book’ focusing on the chapter ‘Inquests versus Public Inquiry’.

Alice is regularly instructed in high profile public inquiries and is adept at handling the many facets of an inquiry, such as drafting court applications, Rule 9 requests and question plans as well as reviewing witness evidence, data analysis and disclosure requests.

Selected Cases

• Brook House Inquiry
• Post Office Horizon Inquiry
• Infected Blood Inquiry
• Public Inquiry into the Death of Jermaine Baker

Alice often appears for claimants and defendants, particularly for procedural hearings, in county courts and the High Court. She has also drafted particulars of claims and defences, schedules and counter-schedules in complex cases.

Alice is adept at appearing in SEND Tribunal dealing with appeals in relation to Section B, F and I of a child’s EHCP.

She was the sub-editor of The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law (Cambridge University Press 2019).

Alice is gaining experience in this area, having drafted advice on judicial review prospects and succeeding in a judicial review renewal hearing. She represents both claimants and defendants, most recently acting for a local authority concerning a referral of safeguarding concerns made to the Local Authority Designated Officer, and in an appeal of a refusal for asylum on behalf of an Albanian national.

Alice is building her experience in this practice area and recently participated in the seminar ‘Pitfalls for Professionals on Social Media‘, talking about the different guidance regulators have for using social media.