Robin is a specialist regulatory barrister. He practises in four main areas: Consumer Finance, Consumer Law, Financial Services, and Life Sciences (including Food Law).
He is ranked as a leading practitioner in these areas by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
Robin has in-depth knowledge of consumer credit law. He is ranked as a leading practitioner in Consumer Finance by Chambers & Partners and in Banking & Finance (including Consumer Credit) by The Legal 500.
Robin has expertise in retail lending requirements and compliance with the technical requirements of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, its subordinate regulations, and CONC. He represents retail lenders and high street banks in consumer credit cases across England & Wales on an essentially constant basis.
In 2020, he appeared in the landmark month-long payday lending test case of Kerrigan v Elevate Credit International Ltd T/A Sunny [2020] EWHC 2169 (Comm) (led by Ruth Bala). The case remains one of the leading authorities on the unfair relationship regime under ss.140A-C of the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
Robin is the co-editor (together with Fred Philpott) of Consumer Credit, Atkin’s Court Forms, Vol 11(2) (2023). He and Fred also jointly edit Consumer Credit, The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, Vol 12(1)A (2023). Robin is also the author of the chapter on the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC) in the Practitioner’s Guide to the UK’s Financial Services Rulebooks.
Robin is ranked as a leading practitioner in Consumer Law by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. In 2023, he was shortlisted for the Legal 500 Group Litigation and Consumer Junior of the Year Award.
Robin undertakes both civil and criminal work in this area. He has particular experience of:
Robin is a contributing editor of Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice, 4th-12th editions (“the Pink Book”), former author of the criminal law chapter in Miller: Product Liability and Safety Encyclopaedia, and former editor of the Consumer and Trading Law Cases law reports (2015 – 2018). He has delivered seminars on related subjects, including to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute and the Office of Product Safety and Standards, and is a regular contributor to Gough Square Live.
Twice seconded to the Financial Conduct Authority, Robin undertakes the full scope of advisory, drafting, and court work in this area. Robin regularly advises and acts for firms and individuals in their dealings with the FCA relating to enforcement, supervision, and authorisation issues. He is ranked as a leading practitioner in Financial Services Regulation by The Legal 500.
Robin has significant advocacy experience in this area, appearing as sole counsel on behalf of firms in contested matters before the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee (RDC) and the Upper Tribunal.
Robin is one of the two general editors of The Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law (Sweet & Maxwell), one of the two authors of Financial Services Litigation (Oxford University Press), a contributing author to A Practitioner’s Guide to the UK Financial Services Rulebooks (Sweet & Maxwell), and author of a number of published articles on related topics.
Robin is ranked as one of the few leading practitioners in Life Sciences Regulation by Chambers & Partners. He has particular experience of advising food and drugs businesses facing regulatory investigation or criminal proceedings.
His criminal practice includes both prosecuting and defending life sciences businesses in regulatory cases, as well as advising on novel products (e.g. novel foods, novel psychoactive substances, and borderline medicinal products). He has been involved in a number of recent cases involving the regulation of Cannabidiol (CBD) products.
Robin’s civil life sciences practice includes strategic and perimeter advice for businesses and regulators, as well as judicial review of decisions taken by regulators.
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