Presenter:
Alexander Davenport

Alexander is a practice development lawyer for the medical negligence and personal injury departments of Irwin Mitchell. He is involved in the training and knowledge management of the firm along with the drafting of policy, guidance and best practice for fee-earners arising from law reforms, legislation and court judgments. He is the lead and subject matter expert for the new digital portals being developed and deployed by HMCTS around the civil courts. He is a member of HMCTS Early Adopter Group and has provided user acceptance testing and feedback for HMCTS on the MyHMCTS system.

Prior to transferring to this role Alexander primarily dealt with claims by service personnel against the Ministry of Defence. This encapsulated all forms of military injuries including noise-induced hearing loss, heat injuries, non-freezing cold injuries and orthopaedic injuries. Additionally, he worked on international and domestic aviation claims for families of those killed in air accidents or those injured in such incidents.

Alexander has also acted for families at inquests related to the deaths of service personnel and has been involved in inquests relating to the RAF Puma crashes, Afghanistan Friendly Fire incidents, and various Red Arrows inquests. Before his legal career he studied medical biochemistry and undertook training with the RAF.