Alison Howey

Alison Howey

Family Law Specialist

Alison practices in all areas of family law, including: divorce, ancillary relief, private law children and public law children cases. Alison offers 20 years of experience as a barrister, combined with 28 years of being a parent, and 50 plus years of being a thoughtful, hard-working and practical person.

Alison also appears in the criminal courts for both the defence and the prosecution, in particular for animal cases, and has contributed to the Sage educational publication ‘An Introduction to Criminal Justice’ with her chapter discussing ‘Prosecution and the Alternatives’.

In 2010, Alison joined the University of Northumbria at Newcastle as a part time Senior Lecturer and is authorised by the Advocacy Training Council (ATC) and the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to teach advocacy to post-graduate students on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). Alison left academia in 2017 to concentrate full time on her practice although she is often invited back to Northumbria to judge mock trials and present guest speaker sessions on animal law related topics.

Alison is a keen animal lover and focussed her research on the field of animal law. Her first article was published in November 2014 in the Veterinary Times, ‘The criminal liability of dog owners under The Animal Welfare Act 2006’. 2 further articles were published in The Veterinary Times, ‘Dogs – Man’s best friend or a minefield of criminal liability?’ and ‘Miscellaneous Criminal Liabilities relating to the Dog Owner’ in 2017. The Journal of Animal Law published an article on the comparison between animal related laws in England and America in the summer of 2016.

Due to her love of animals and interest in the field of animal law Alison regularly undertakes instructions in animal welfare cases, and dangerous dogs matters, under the 1871 Dogs Act, the DDA 1991 and the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953.

Due to her daughter’s experience and Alison’s heavy involvement in the equine competition world, Alison has taken great interest in the Control of Horses Act 2015 and wrote an article upon the Act for the EquiTrader magazine in 2015.

Alison is ideally experienced to deal with legal matters in all aspects of countryside related issues, including civil disputes and land related matters.

Accreditations

LLB(Hons) 2.1 1998

BVC Barrister at Law Very Competent 1999

ATC and BSB approved to teach advocacy 2012

PGHEP Masters in Higher Education Teaching 2015

HEA Fellow of the Higher Education Authority 2015