Alexandra Allen-Franks has been awarded a Cambridge Trust Scholarship and a Trinity Hall Research Studentship to study a PhD at the University of Cambridge, beginning in October 2019.

Her research will consider admissibility of evidence obtained in breach of human rights in both criminal and civil proceedings.

Alexandra was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in October 2014. She is a graduate of the University of Otago, a former Judges’ Clerk at the Auckland High Court and a former junior barrister to Andrew Brown QC at Bankside Chambers.