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Pia Dutton

Pia Dutton

Position

Pia is building a general commercial practice in line with Chambers’ profile. She has been instructed as sole advocate in a number of banking and commercial disputes. During pupillage Pia gained experience in a broad range of areas including banking, commercial contracts, arbitration, confidentiality, financial services regulation, consumer credit and insurance. Before joining Chambers, Pia worked and studied in a number of different jurisdictions. After completing an LLM at the University of Chicago Law School, and the BCL at Oxford, Pia taught international law and published work on Burmese politics while working for the Burma Lawyers’ Council on the Thai-Burma border. She also acted as foreign law clerk to Justice Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa before moving to New York to complete an internship in the commercial litigation and appeals departments in Jones Day.

Career

Called 2013, Middle Temple Inn. Publications and prizes: Queen Mother Scholarship (Middle Temple); University of Chicago Law School – 1st in jurisprudence; Colombos International Law Essay Prize (2010); ‘Modern Distinctions Between the UK and US Commercial Legal Systems’: LexisNexis Mealey’s International Arbitration Legal News (2014); ‘Action in Burma: The International Rule of Politics’: Lawka Pala Legal Journal on Burma, No 39 (August 2011) 46; ‘Politics and Injudicious Heroism’ Cambridge Student Law Review, Volume 6 Number 1 (2010) 316.

Education

Keble College, Oxford (BA hons in jurisprudence, 2009); University of Chicago Law School (LLM, 2010); Keble College, Oxford (BCL, 2011).

Mentions

London Bar

Fraud: civil

Leading junior4
Pia Dutton – 3 Verulam Buildings 'She is incredibly intelligent and has very sound judgement.'
London Bar

Professional negligence

Leading junior6
Pia Dutton – 3 Verulam Buildings 'Pia has very sound judgement. She understands the most complex legal issues but is also realistic and clear-sighted about where matters are likely to end up. She is very personable, a team player, and very good company.'