Call: 2002
Qualifications: MA (Oxon)
Practice Teams
Asset Forfeiture
Civil & Commercial
Criminal
Property
Richard SharpePrint CV
Profile
Richard was taken on as a tenant in chambers in 2004 following the successful completion of a third six month pupillage since when he has developed a busy practice stemming from his mixed civil and criminal training background so that today he is instructed in a number of diverse specialisms including libel (where he is instructed as junior counsel in a trial currently before the High Court), licensing, personal injury, insolvency and employment.
His property law experience includes being instructed by housing associations and individuals in residential possession proceedings and by private corporations in commercial leasehold disputes.
Richard has represented members of the London Taxi Drivers' Association in over 100 cases ranging from the magistrates court through to the Crown Court and the Administrative court. These cases range from speeding offences through to the interpretation of complex legislation.
Further, current and recent examples of his caseload include:
Asset Forfeiture
- instructed as junior counsel for the Assets Recovery Agency (now subsumed into SOCA) in a civil recovery claim which was settled at mediation for £18 million
- instructed as junior counsel in High Court civil recovery claim with foreign jurisdiction elements
- numerous cash detention forfeiture hearings
Criminal
- instructed for defence as junior counsel in a complex eight week fraud at Winchester Crown Court
- instructed as junior counsel for prosecution in perverting the course of justice trial (defendants included service police officers)
- instructed for defence as in multi-handed serious violence against the police trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court
- prosecuted s.18 stabbings, serious sexual assaults, drugs offences, etc
- successfully defended in numerous Courts-Martial trials including charges of sexual assault and serious violence
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instructed as sole counsel to prosecute a complex identity theft and subsequent fraud in excess of £100,000