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Robin Dunne
Position
Robin is a specialist in costs and litigation funding. He has focused on this complex area of law since qualification and is recommended for costs litigation in both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
As well as his inter-partes practice Robin is a specialist in solicitor and client disputes and has been instructed in many of the leading cases dealing with this specialist area of costs law. In 2018 Robin’s book “A Practical Guide to Solicitor and Client Costs” was published, with an updated second edition released in August 2020.
He also acts in professional negligence claims involving solicitors, particularly where the dispute involves issues relating to costs.
Prior to independent practice, he was an employed barrister and partner in a City of London firm of solicitors.
In addition to his practice at the bar, he sits as a Tribunal Judge in the First Tier Tribunal (HESC).
Robin prides himself on combining a friendly manner with a commercially astute approach.
Career
Prior to independent practice, he was an employed barrister and partner in a City of London firm of solicitors.
Education
Education
- BA (Hons) University of London
- PG Dip Law, City University
- BVC, Inns of Court School of Law
- Mediator, CIArb
- Judge of the First Tier Tribunal
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Costs
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Robin Dunne –Gatehouse Chambers ‘Robin has a calm, unflappable approach to costs matters. He is clearly in control of the case.’
With specialists at all levels of call, the costs team at Gatehouse Chambers are frequently instructed on the most high-profile and complex appellate cases. PJ Kirby KC appeared before the Supreme Court in PACCAR Inc v Road Haulage Association Ltd, with the court declaring that litigation funding agreements that entitle funders to payment based on damages recovered amount to damages-based agreements, which are therefore unenforceable unless complying with the DBA regulatory regime, a judgment with significant ramifications for UK litigation funders and claimant law firms. Following on from the highly-publicised Belsner case, Robin Dunne is acting as sole counsel in Edwards & Ors v Slater & Gordon; a test case clarifying for the first time that disclosure under Part 31 CPR applies to solicitor and client claims and that claimant firms taking these cases do not do so illegally.