Alice Hardy

Alice is a member of the police law team and has considerable public law experience from working on cases arising from the war in Iraq.

Alice trained at Lovells and qualified in March 2005. In December 2005 she moved to Public Interest Lawyers where she gained extensive experience working on judicial review and compensation cases on behalf of groups and individuals. She worked on Al-Jedda, a British prisoner held in Basra, in a variety of claims, one of which went to the House of Lords. She also assisted in Al-Skeini, challenging the Government’s refusal to hold an inquiry into Iraqi civilian deaths, heard at the House of Lords in April 2007.

At Lovells she worked on pro bono appeals for death row prisoners and acted at Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and Disability Living Allowance tribunals. She also worked for the Bow County Court Advisory Service, representing people facing eviction. She has worked pro bono for Reprieve, Amicus, Redress and other NGOs.

Alice was on the Steering Group Committee of the Solicitors’ International Human Rights Group and was coordinator of the Death Penalty and Due Process working groups from 2004 to 2005. She is a member of the Human Rights Lawyers Association, the British Muslim Human Rights Centre, Amnesty and Greenpeace.

Alice has a degree in English Literature from New College, Oxford.