Bio
Richard is a Disputes Partner.
Richard specialisies in advising business and individuals across a broad range of disputes and litigious matters.
He works with owner-managed businesses, SMEs, partnerships, large companies, and government departments across a range of sectors including financial and professional services, food and agriculture, manufacturing, education, waste management, public procurement, healthcare, and property, with particular expertise in contract disputes, shareholder disputes, corporate fraud, professional negligence, construction and building disputes, and injunctive relief.
Richard also works individuals across a range of matters including shareholder disputes, consumer disputes, breach of trust disputes, contentious probate matters, insolvency disputes, and bankruptcy petitions.
Alongside his experience litigating claims through the courts (including the High Court), Richard regularly engages in alternative dispute resolution such as mediation to resolve disputes outside of court.
Examples of Richard’s work include:
- Acting for a business within the healthcare sector to successfully challenge the outcome of an NHS Provider Selection Regime (PSR) public procurement process.
- Acting for an incumbent provider of services to a public body to pursue both a Part 7 claim and a Judicial Review claim following a public procurement.
- Seeking urgent injunctive relief and pursuing a subsequent claim on behalf of a client to enforce restrictive covenants that were beaching breached by a former employee.
- Supporting a large business in the waste management sector to seek urgent injunctive relief to prevent a customer from unlawfully terminating a long-term supply contract.
- Acting for various individuals in farming partnerships to resolve disputes and, where necessary, divide assets and wind-up or dissolve partnerships.
- Supporting for a property developer to pursue a professional negligence claim concerning the failed development of a 5* luxury hotel which had incurred losses of at least £60 million.
- Acting on a professional negligence claim arising from a boiler explosion on a university campus.