Robert Bellin

On successful completion of a third six pupillage, Robert became a tenant of New Square Chambers in May 2023.

He completed his 12-month pupillage at Essex Court Chambers. Robert accepts instructions across all areas of commercial, insolvency, company and civil fraud work. From 2021-2022, Robert worked as the Judicial Assistant to Lord Hamblen and Lord Leggatt at the Supreme Court.

While at the Court, Robert assisted on several significant cases, including: Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27 (proprietary estoppel). Gol Linhas Aereas SA v MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners (Cayman) and others [2022] UKPC 21 (refusal to recognise and enforce an arbitral award under article V of the New York Convention). Royal Bank of Scotland International v JP SPC 4 and another [2022] UKPC 18 (whether a bank’s Quincecare duty could be extended to a duty of care owed in tort to the beneficiary of an account known by the bank to be a trust account).

Before starting pupillage, Robert taught Contract, Administrative and Roman law at the University of Oxford and was a teaching fellow in contract law at UCL. At the same time, he completed a DPhil with a thesis exploring possible legal methods for regulating stored human genetic material. Robert has a BA in Law (First), BCL (Distinction), and MPhil from the University of Oxford. He also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. At Oxford, Robert won numerous mooting competitions, including the Shearman & Sterling and Maitland Chambers Intercollegiate Moots, and volunteered with Lawyers Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also won The Times 2TG Moot in 2019.

BA Law, Balliol College, Oxford: First Class Bachelor of Civil Law, Balliol College, Oxford: Distinction MPhil Law, Balliol College, Oxford LLM, Harvard Law School DPhil, Balliol College, Oxford BPTC, The University of Law: Very Competent