Examples of current and recent instructions include:

• Junior counsel for the Government in the English judicial reviews concerning the EU (Withdrawal) (No.2) Act 2019 (‘the Benn Act’), including R (Liberty) v Prime Minister [2020] 1 WLR 1193 (prerogative powers, the frustration principle, and judicial comity between UK jurisdictions in public law cases).
• Junior counsel for the Government in R (Miller) v Prime Minister in the Divisional Court [2019] EWHC 2381 (QB) and Supreme Court [2020] AC 373 (concerning prorogation, prerogative powers, justiciability, parliamentary sovereignty, and art. IX of the Bill of Rights).
• Junior counsel (led by Maya Lester QC and Sarah Love) in R (Bluebird Boats) v The Royal Parks Limited, a challenge to the decision to break the continuity of boating services on the Serpentine (permission and interim relief judgment: [2020] EWHC 3647 (Admin)).
• Defending appeals against enforcement orders under the Child Support Act 1991.
• Resisting non-party costs orders under the Civil Legal Aid (Costs) Regulations 2013.
• Obtaining an extension of an interim suspension of a paramedic from the Administrative Court.
• Advising in an employment case concerning the presumption against Crown application, the divisible capacity of the Crown in overseas territories, and the employment status of police officers.
• Advising in relation to Articles 2, 3, 6, 7 and 14 of the ECHR.

As a pupil, Richard assisted in a range of public law matters, including:

• R (British Telecommunications plc) v HM Treasury [2019] Pens LR 2019 (judicial review in the Divisional Court on powers to index public sector pensions, improper purpose and A1P1, with Martin Chamberlain QC and Tim Johnston).
• R (Privacy International) v IPT [2020] AC 491 (an intervention in the Supreme Court on the interpretation and permissibility of clauses ousting judicial review, with Martin Chamberlain QC and David Heaton).
• R (BF (Eritrea)) v SSHD [2020] 4 WLR 38 (intervention in judicial review of the legality of the Home Office’s age assessment policy, with Martin Chamberlain QC).
• R (Advanz Pharma Corp) v CMA [2019] EWHC 1605 (Admin) (judicial review on procedural fairness and rationality of CMA investigative decisions, with Marie Demetriou QC).

Examples of current and recent instructions include:

• Richard acts as junior counsel for the Claimants (led by Marie Demetriou QC and Colin West QC) in Allianz Global Investors v Barclays Bank and others, a follow-on and standalone damages claim brought in respect of allegedly unlawful conduct by banks on the foreign exchange market: see [2021] 4 CMLR 18 (judgment on pass on, standing to sue and reflective loss).
• Junior counsel in OT Computers (In Liquidation) v Infineon Technologies [2021] EWCA Civ 501 on s.32(1)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980 in competition cases (led by Daniel Jowell QC).
• Junior counsel for the appellant in appeal against a CMA decision to impose the maximum penalty under the Competition Act 1998, including a challenge to the legality of the CMA’s penalty guidance (led by Robert O’Donoghue QC): [2020] CAT 13; [2020] CAT 28.
• Advice on the notification of mergers under the Enterprise Act 2002.

As a pupil, Richard assisted in a range of competition cases, including:

• Ping Europe Limited v CMA [2020] 4 AER 276 (restrictions of competition by object, with Marie Demetriou QC).
• Electro Rent Corp v CMA [2019] CAT 4 (breach of interim order during merger control reference, with Marie Demetriou QC).
• Personnel Hygiene Services v CMA (judicial review of remedy on merger reference, with Marie Demetriou QC and Tom Pascoe).

Examples of current and recent instructions include:

• Gazprom Export LLC v DDI Holdings Limited [2020] 4 CMLR 16, led by Neil Calver QC (abuse of process by way of collateral attack on arbitration awards and the effectiveness of EU law).
• Office Depot v Holdham [2019] 4 WLR 120, led by Marie Demetriou QC (relationship between CPR Part 11 and article 30 of the Brussels Regulation, and whether there is a presumption of a stay under article 30).

As a pupil, he assisted in a range of commercial matters, including:

• Vasant v NHS Commissioning Board [2020] 1 AER (Comm) 799 (uncertain contracts and reference to extrinsic material in interpretation, with Marie Demetriou QC).
• Harbour Fund III, LP v Kazakhstan Kagazy plc and others (construction of litigation funding agreement and relationship between damages and costs; (with Tony Singla)).
• An arbitration involving a delay claim and alleged economic torts (with Tony Singla).
• Chu v Borrelli [2019] HKCA 622 (redemption of share mortgages, with Charles Hollander QC).

Examples of current and recent instructions include:

• Junior counsel in a judicial review on whether contractual payments fell within the Altmark criteria or were State aids.
• Advice on the Refugee Convention.
• Advice on environmental obligations under customary international law.
• Advice on the recovery of EU grants and the interpretation of the EU Financial Regulation (2018/1046/EU).
• Advice on EU external relations law and dispute resolution.

As a pupil, Richard assisted in a range of EU/international law matters, including:

• Micula v Romania [2020] 1 WLR 1033 (appeal and cross-appeal to Supreme Court on EU law, the Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act 1966 and Brexit, with Marie Demetriou QC and Hugo Leith).
• Gubeladze v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2019] AC 885 (‘goldplating’ of EU directives, construction of Citizens Rights Directive, derogations under Treaties of Accession, with Martin Chamberlain QC).
• Advice on the foreign act of state doctrine and the statutory presumption against extraterritoriality (with Marie Demetriou QC).

Education and qualifications

• 2017-2018: BPTC, City Law School (Outstanding)
• 2014-2015: GDL, City Law School (Distinction)
• 2011-2014: BA, History, Wadham College, Oxford (1^st class)

Scholarships and Prizes

Honourable Society of Middle Temple:

• Baron Dr Ver Heyden de Lancey Prize

City Law School:

• Barstow Scholarship
• Worshipful Company of Arbitrators Prize

Wadham College, University of Oxford:

• Gibbs Book Prize
• Cheney Prize
• Undergraduate scholarships

Other experience

Before coming to the Bar, Richard worked for a year in politics, providing policy advice and assistance to cabinet ministers, MPs and peers.