Robert T J Brown

Robert is a graduate of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1983. He trained at Darlington & Parkinson, becoming a partner in 1985. He left that firm in 2000 to take up an overseas contract with the Department for International Development. He joined Corker Binning as a Consultant in late 2001 and became a partner in April 2007.

The 2005 Chambers UK guide to the legal profession described Robert as being praised for his "extremely sound judgement". He has practiced criminal law for almost 20 years and defended in all types of criminal cases, including many cases of homicide and large-scale conspiracies. Fraud work has included the defence in the Harrovian Mortgage Fraud (then the largest case of its kind ever prosecuted), cases of fraudulent trading; customs duty evasion and international drugs trafficking.

Between 1998 and 2000 he advised Captain Nikitin of the former Soviet Navy on his application to the European Court of Human Rights on charges of espionage and high treason of which he was eventually acquitted.

He is a regular speaker on criminal law and practice in the UK and overseas (including Europe, China, Africa and Russia) and has been instructed as an expert witness on issues of criminal and international law.

Between 2000-2002, with funding from the Department for International Development in the UK, he has acted as Director of a team of international jurists advising the Russian Government on amendments to the Federal Constitution of 1993.

He is co-editor of the groundbreaking new Archbold Magistrates Courts Practice, published in January 2005, the first significant new magistrates court practitioners guide to be published for many years.

He is the immediate past President of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association, a member of the Academic Review Board of the Open University Law Programme and a member of the Committee of the Criminal Law Solicitors' Association.

Robert is a member of the Council of The Law Society of England and Wales, having been elected to the specialist Criminal Defence seat on 1st August 2005.

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