Robin Dunne

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 Recorder, sitting in the Civil jurisdiction and as 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.