Robin Knowles QC CBE - 3-4 South Square
Robin Knowles QC CBE
- Called:
- 1982
- Areas of practice:
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- Banking and Financial Services
- Commercial Law
- Insolvency & Restructuring
- Insurance Law
- Partnership Law
- Professional & Clinical Negligence
- Organisation:
- 3-4 South Square
Robin Knowles QC CBE’s CPDcasts
Robin is an official CPDcast contributor and contributes to the following podcasts:
- CPDcasts:
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- Legal Aid Costs and FRU
- The Access to Justice Foundation
Biography
Robin practises at the Commercial and Chancery Bars. His particular specialisations are in financial law, contract law, company law (including insolvency), the law of professional negligence, and insurance law. He is regularly instructed in cases where there is a reputational aspect as well as a financial one. As well as appearing in the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division and the appellate courts, and overseas, he has represented parties at over 36 mediations.
From 2005 to 2007 Robin was Chairman of the Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR), the professional association of the Commercial Bar of England & Wales.
Robin was closely involved in work to re-cast the Commercial Court Guide with the advent of the Woolf Reforms. More recently he has served on the Aikens working party on “supercases” and commercial court procedure generally.
Robin sits part-time as a Deputy High Court Judge, and as a Recorder in the Crown Court. He is authorised to sit in the Chancery Division and in the Queen’s Bench Division. In the Crown Court he is authorised to hear cases involving serious sexual offences.
Robin also has a long-standing commitment to legal pro bono work, and to the coordination of that work. He was awarded the CBE for services to pro bono legal services in the 2006 New Years Honours List. Among other pro bono roles, he is the Chairman of the Bar Pro Bono Unit, a trustee of LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group), a member of the Advisory Council of Advocates for International Development, and a member of the Attorney General’s National Pro Bono Coordinating Committee (and of its International Committee). He chairs two legal advice projects serving the diverse community in the East End of London. He also chairs the cross-sector working party on the establishment of the Access to Justice Foundation.
Robin is a member of the Bar Council’s General Management Committee. He is a Bencher of Middle Temple, and also a member of Gray’s Inn.
Outside the law, Robin is the Chairman of Trustees of Richard House Childrens Hospice, which was London’s first hospice for children who are unlikely to live into adulthood.
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