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Robert Bellin

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Position

On successful completion of a third six pupillage, Robert became a tenant of New Square Chambers in May 2023.

He completed his 12-month pupillage at Essex Court Chambers. Robert accepts instructions across all areas of commercial, insolvency, company and civil fraud work. From 2021-2022, Robert worked as the Judicial Assistant to Lord Hamblen and Lord Leggatt at the Supreme Court.

While at the Court, Robert assisted on several significant cases, including:

• Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27 (proprietary estoppel).
• Gol Linhas Aereas SA v MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners (Cayman) and others [2022] UKPC 21 (refusal to recognise and enforce an arbitral award under article V of the New York Convention).
• Royal Bank of Scotland International v JP SPC 4 and another [2022] UKPC 18 (whether a bank’s Quincecare duty could be extended to a duty of care owed in tort to the beneficiary of an account known by the bank to be a trust account).

Before starting pupillage, Robert taught Contract, Administrative and Roman law at the University of Oxford and was a teaching fellow in contract law at UCL. At the same time, he completed a DPhil with a thesis exploring possible legal methods for regulating stored human genetic material. Robert has a BA in Law (First), BCL (Distinction), and MPhil from the University of Oxford. He also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. At Oxford, Robert won numerous mooting competitions, including the Shearman & Sterling and Maitland Chambers Intercollegiate Moots, and volunteered with Lawyers Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also won The Times 2TG Moot in 2019.

Career

Called to the Bar 2019;

Awards

• BCL Subject Prize for Best Performance
• Arts and Humanities Research Council DPhil Scholarship
• Winner, Gray’s Inn Moot 2009
• Winner, Holdsworth Moot 2010
• Winner, Oxford Maitland (Cuppers) Mooting Competition 2010
• Winner, Shearman and Sterling Moot 2012
• Winner, The Times (2TG) National Mooting Competition 2018-2019
• University of Law Advocacy Scholar

Professional Appointments

• Stipendiary Lecturer in Law teaching Contract, Administrative and Roman Law, Worcester College, Oxford
• Stipendiary Lecturer in Law teaching Contract, Administrative and Roman Law, Mansfield College, Oxford
• Teaching Fellow in Contract Law, UCL
• Tutor in Contract Law, Mansfield College, Oxford
• Pupil, Essex Court Chambers
• Judicial Assistant to Lord Hamblen of Kersey and Lord Leggatt at the Supreme Court, 2021-2022

Education

• BA Law, Balliol College, Oxford: First Class
• Bachelor of Civil Law, Balliol College, Oxford: Distinction
• MPhil Law, Balliol College, Oxford
• LLM, Harvard Law School
• DPhil, Balliol College, Oxford
• BPTC, The University of Law: Very Competent