Robin Howard

  • Practice Groups
  • Employment
  • Personal Injury
  • Career

  • 1986 Called to the Bar

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Profile

A broad business and general civil law practice, and in particular Insolvency, personal and corporate, real property (boundaries, easements, securities) professional negligence (legal, medical) employment, insurance and personal injury.

Also acts in public law matters, particularly environmental and regulatory, both for and against local and central government authorities and agencies.

Willing to accept instructions under Conditional Fee Arrangments. Authorised to accept instructions under Public Access (BarDirect).

Experience

  • Recently acted in the Thakrar litigation, a five-year-long litigation involving fraud, insolvency, and a multi-million pound property company
  • Advised in connection with anti-competitive practices in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Defended in company fraud centred on horseracing. Appeared for several Claimants in sex discrimination claims reported in the non-specialist press (red tops)
  • Acted for tetraplegic Claimant defrauded of more than £1 million by his own solicitor

Significant cases

Jackson v Thakrar [2007] EWHC 626
Test for costs order against non-party funder

Assured Quality Construction v Thompson [2006] The Times 21 April
Elements of slander of title

MacKinnon v Human Resources Group [2004] UKEAT 
Discrimination, employment

R v Epping Forest DC ex p. Philcox [2002] Env LR 2
Planning, certificate of established use where use an offence

Krasner v Dennison, Lawrence v Lesser [2001] Ch. 76 CA (and successfully petitioned HL for leave)
Pensions and bankruptcy

Blackstone Franks v Robertson [1998] IRLR 376
Wages

Qualifications

MA (Oxon)
Dip Law (London)