Call: 1979
Qualifications: LLB (Hons)
Practice Teams
Civil & Commercial
Criminal
Property
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Profile
A founder member of chambers in 1984 Richard's expertise extends to a mixed civil and criminal practice. His main civil and commercial specialisations are personal injury and clinical negligence, professional negligence and commercial contract disputes. He also advises on property law cases.
His criminal law practice has seen him appear recently as leading counsel in a prosecution of police personnel charged with perverting the course of justice and a large-scale high-value drug importation and he has been instructed on murder, attempted murder and rape cases.
Richard also regularly receives instructions in Judicial Review matters (see "reported cases, crime" below) and is an experienced and respected advocate in Courts-Martials in the UK and abroad.
Richard has been a member of the Turks & Caicos Bar since 1983.
Reported cases
Civil & Commercial; Property
AMT v City of London Police FIU & ors [2003] 1 W.L.R. 2711 - money laundering
Rowbottom v Masonic Hospital [2002] ML 5 - limitation, date of knowledge
McLister v London Borough of Southwark (2001) LTL 4.9.01 - property developments, reverse premiums, etc.
Rattray v Hinds [2000] CLY 1615 - PI quantum, US citizen unable to obtain health insurance, etc.
Sofi v Prudential Insurance [1993] 2 Lloyds LR 559 - reasonable steps to safeguard against loss, etc.
Crime
R v Campbell [2007] 1 W.L.R. 2798 (CA); [2007] 2 Cr.App.R. 28; [2008] Cr.L.R. 303
- the leading case on directions on bad character
R (CPS) v Crown Court at Guildford [2007] 1 W.L.R. 2886 - judicial review not available for illegal sentences in Crown Court
Carter v DPP [2007] RTR 257; Skinner v DPP [2005] RTR 207; Jones v DPP [2005] RTR 184 - all three cases on excess alcohol procedures
Griffiths v DPP [2007] EWHC 619 (Admin); CLW/17/8/07 - (Gatso speed cameras).
R v Field [2003] 1 W.L.R. 882 (CA) - human rights aspects of child disqualification orders.
R v S(G) and ors [2005] CLW/05/26/5 - covert recordings, Art 6 and 8, RIPA.