Achas Burin

Practice Areas

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 Lampard Inquiry into mental health provision in Essex. She previously had a longstanding involvement in the Infected Blood Inquiry and 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 KC and Nina Ross.

Achas is an Assistant Professor at Warwick University, where she teaches tort law.

See https://12kbw.co.uk/barristers/achas-burin/ for further details.

Career

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.

Professional Memberships

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