Robert Marven KC

Practice Areas

Robert Marven KC is a specialist in all aspects of costs law and litigation funding. He is instructed in a range of high profile cases in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, and the High Court. Robert also has considerable experience in mediating, both as a representative and as a mediator. Robert is often brought into major group and commercial litigation to deal with specific costs issues. He provides strategic advice to all involved with the costs and funding of litigation. He advises on complex funding solutions for major commercial disputes, costs disputes between solicitors and former clients, and substantial disputes concerning legal expenses insurance. Robert is also an expert on conditional and contingency fee agreements; budgeting; fixed costs; as well as wasted and non-party costs orders. Recent cases include: Kenig v Thomson Snell and Passmore LLP [2024] 1 WLR 3767 (right of a beneficiary to challenge executor’s solicitors’ costs); Karatysz v SGI Legal LLP [2023] 1 WLR 1071 (landmark Court of Appeal decision on assessing deductions from damages made by solicitors); Tabbitt v Clark [2023] Costs LR 981 (transitions of claims between different QOCS rules in the CPR), AKC v Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust [2022] 1 WLR 946 (requirements for electronic bills of costs); Hunt v Annolight Ltd [2022] 1 WLR 701 (cross-examination in wasted costs applications); Chapelgate Credit Opportunity Master Fund Ltd v Money [2020] 1 WLR 1751 (non-party costs orders against commercial funders).