Alice de Coverley

Practice Areas

https://www.3pb.co.uk/barristers/alice-de-coverley/

Alice de Coverley is a specialist education, equality, and public law barrister. She regularly acts for children and young people, vulnerable adults, parents and carers, schools, local authorities, charities and NGOs, government departments, students, and universities. Alice has significant experience working with children and young people with disabilities, severe mental health conditions, special educational needs and those who have experienced sexual violence. She is passionate about education law and children’s rights.

She is on the legal reference panel for the Centre for Women’s Justice, providing advice and representation to organisations supporting girls experiencing sexual violence. Alice acted for Ofsted on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), led by Sarah Hannett KC and Mathew Gullick KC. She is highly experienced in bringing and defending claims involving breaches of the Equality Act 2010 by education providers.

She also specialises in breach of contract and negligence claims involving religious institutions, independent schools, local authorities, and universities. She has recently been involved in several judicial review claims and private law actions against schools and higher education institutions. She appears regularly in the First-Tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, and High Court.

Nominated The Times’ Lawyer of the Week in 2023.

Career

Called 2014

Professional Memberships

Education Law Association

Legal Reference Panel for the Centre for Women's Justice

Editorial Board Member of Counsel Magazine.

Neurodiversity in Law Executive Board Member

Publications

“A Practical Guide to the Law in relation to School Exclusions”.

Contributing to “Patterson & Karim on Judicial Review” (Lexis, 2019), heading up the Education Law chapter.