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Robert Cumming

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Work Department

Private International Law & Travel, Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Employment

Position

Robert has a specialist practice in two core areas: commercial and employment litigation; and clinical negligence and personal injury litigation. He frequently represents clients in trial before the High Court and has appeared in appellate courts (as sole counsel) on numerous occasions.

He has particular experience in private international law group actions brought in the English courts by foreign claimants against multinational corporations (often based in Africa).

Highlights of his recent and current work include: Kadie Kalma & ors v Tonkolili Iron Ore (SL) Ltd [2018] EWHC 120 (QB); and ongoing; Suetta v (1) Auld (2) MIB (ongoing); JJML Pelvic Organ Prolapse (ongoing); Optical Express litigation (ongoing); Hawkins v York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2017].

Career

Before coming to the Bar, Robert graduated from Girton College, Cambridge as the Sir Francis Goldsmid Scholar. He subsequently taught undergraduate law at Cambridge University, before working for one of the leading offshore law firms in its Guernsey litigation team. His international practice has continued at the Bar and he is experienced in disputes before the Guernsey and Jersey Courts, Isle of Man Courts, BVI Courts, the Supreme Court of Gibraltar and the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Memberships

PNBA, PIBA, GILA

Education

University of Cambridge, MA (Cantab).