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Dr Achas Burin

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Position

Achas enjoys a varied practice in 12KBW’s core areas. She is keen to tackle research on complex points, including procedural ones and those involving a crossover between different spheres of law. She welcomes instructions in matters that cross the boundary between tort and public law. She is currently instructed in the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing and the Infected Blood Inquiry. She previously had a longstanding involvement in the Kenya Emergency Group Litigation.

She acted as a junior in Coventry v Lawrence (No. 3) [2015] UKSC 50, the landmark Supreme Court case concerning whether the costs regime under the Access to Justice Act 1999 complied with human rights law.

She was also instructed in X v Kuoni Travel [2019] C-578/19, both in the Supreme Court and before the Court of Justice of the European Union, alongside William Audland QC and Nina Ross.

Achas is a Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University, where she teaches tort law and medical law.

Career

Publications of note: ‘A ‘right not to be offended’ under Article 10(2)? – Concerns in the construction of the ‘rights of others.’ [2012] European Human Rights Law Review 193 cited in the judgment of the High Court of Australia in Monis v the Queen [2013] HCA 4; ‘Beyond pragmatism: defending the ‘bright line’ of birth’ (2014) 22(4) Medical Law Review 494; ‘What does it mean to suffer loss?’ (2014) 77(6) Modern Law Review 994; ‘Case comment: Reaney v Staffordshire NHS Trust – clinical negligence – causation’ (2014) 130 Personal Injury Law Journal 22.

Memberships

PIBA (Personal Injuries Bar Association); TATLA (Travel and Tourism Lawyers Association).

Education

University of Leeds, LLB (Hons) Law (first class) 2008-11; BPP Law School BPTC (Outstanding), 2011-12; University of Oxford, BCL (with distinction), 2012-13.