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Costs and litigation funding

Robin Dunne

Robin Dunne

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Gatehouse Chambers’ members possess ‘a wealth of knowledge’ in costs and litigation funding matters, with the set providing expertise in complex appellate cases, drafting DBAs and Litigation Management Agreements, as well as assisting litigation teams on applications for security for costs. Specialising in Damages Based Agreements and Litigation Management Agreements, PJ Kirby KC has recently been instructed in a large group action, Aabar Holdings & Others v Glencore PLC & others, to give advice relating to costs sharing, security for costs, costs management and funding issues. Robin Dunne has acted for Coleen Rooney in Vardy v Rooney, a case concerning a £1.8m costs bill and novel issues regarding the relevance of a budget to an indemnity basis costs order. In Pan-NOx Litigation, Martyn Griffiths is acting as sole counsel for BMW and has been involved in costs budgeting, funding disclosure, and security for costs.
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Position

Robin Dunne 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 The 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. Robin is a contributor to Friston on Costs (4th Edition), which is the leading practitioner textbook on costs.

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) in the mental health jurisdiction.

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.

Call: 2002

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

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  • 'The costs team at Gatehouse has grown significantly in recent years and is now a real force to be reckoned with. There is indepth knowledge in particular of third party funding and long established links with funders.'
  • 'There is a wealth of knowledge, skill set and availability at Gatehouse.'
  • 'The costs team are really good.'