JUNIOR PROFILE

Robert Harris

UK Bar 2026

One Essex Court

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Fraud: Civil

London (Bar)

2 years ranked

Commercial Dispute Resolution

London (Bar)

2 years ranked

About

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UK Bar

Practice Areas

Rob has a broad commercial practice, with a particular focus on banking and finance, civil fraud, and general commercial disputes. He has been instructed in multiple cases in The Lawyer’s ‘Top 20’, including a year-long trial. His recent instructions include: the Boohoo securities class action (defending Section 90A FSMA proceedings); EuroChem v SocGen & ING (defending non-payment of a performance bond on the basis that the claimants were owned and/or controlled by a sanctioned Russian oligarch); PIFSS v Al Rajaan (defending a Swiss private bank in a US$900m claim based on alleged payment of secret commissions); APS & Alpine v Sumitomo (proceedings in the Supreme Court of Bermuda seeking an appraisal of the ‘fair value’ of shares in a NYSE-listed pharmaceutical company); RAKIA v Azima and Al Sadeq & Quzmar v Dechert (defending a law firm against various allegations of wrongdoing including computer hacking, procurement of a Court judgment by fraud, and human rights abuses); and AMMENA v AML (acting for Aston Martin Lagonda in multiple related sets of proceedings against its Middle Eastern distributor, involving debt claims and allegations of bad faith). For more details, see Rob’s profile here: https://www.oeclaw.co.uk/barristers/profile/robert-harris

Career

Called 2020 (Inner Temple).

Professional Memberships

COMBAR; YFLA.

Publications

‘MWB: Modifications, Wrangles, and Bypassing’ [2018] LMCLQ 441, which has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal.

Personal

City Law School (BPTC – Outstanding – ranked 1st in year); Keble College, Oxford (BA (Hons) with Senior Status in Jurisprudence – First Class); New College, Oxford (BA (Hons) in PPE – First Class).

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Fraud: Civil - London (Bar)

Band 5

Individual Editorial

Robert Harris leverages his broader commercial practice to represent clients in civil fraud matters, gaining experience in complex cases before the High Court. He has also acted unled on smaller, domestic cases, allowing him to gain valuable advocacy experience.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Robert is incredibly hard-working and detail-oriented, as well as being clever well beyond his year of call.
Fraud: CivilUK Bar
He is absolutely excellent. He works incredibly hard. He is very methodical and a good lawyer. He is ingenious and comes up with unexpected stuff.
Fraud: CivilUK Bar
Rob is very bright and good at absorbing huge amounts of information quickly and working out what is important. His practice is very impressive.
Commercial Dispute ResolutionUK Bar
Robert Harris is absolutely excellent. He works incredibly hard and is very methodical. He's also ingenious and comes up with unexpected stuff.
Commercial Dispute ResolutionUK Bar
Robert Harris is incredibly hard-working and detail-oriented. He's also clever well beyond his year of call.
Commercial Dispute ResolutionUK Bar