Commercial
Richard is an experienced junior in the Commercial department, with extensive experience of acting in an advisory capacity or drafting, and in advocacy of all kinds.
Richard has extensive experience across the Commercial sphere, including in relation to:
- Company and shareholder disputes, including unfair prejudice petitions, derivative actions and SPA disputes, and claims concerning breach of duty
- Contractual disputes, including sale of goods and product liability
- Mortgages, banking, finance and asset recovery
- Partnership disputes
- Professional negligence
- Commercial fraud
Richard is also a member of the Commercial Fraud, Insolvency and Property teams and thus able to deal with matters also covering those areas of law.
Richard is listed as a Leading Individual in Chambers & Partners in Commercial Dispute Resolution, and a Leading Junior in The Legal 500 in Company and Insolvency.
Richard’s work on the Attorney General’s Regional A Panel also includes work involving commercial matters.
Commercial Cases
Recent and relevant cases include:
Royle v Together Commercial Finance Ltd [2024] EWHC 2915 (Ch) – led by Lesley Anderson KC and involving numerous other silks – concerning allegations of various breaches on the part of a lender and other parties, said to amount to some £40,000,000
Re Alam Investments Ltd [2023] EWHC 1460 (Ch) – led by Mark Cawson KC and later Paul Chaisty KC – 42 day trial of preliminary issues in 5 linked actions, amongst other hearings, concerning control of a family supermarket business and a family history spanning several decades, with the actions including an unfair prejudice petition, derivative action, a possession claim and claims for various economic torts
Re G – 2023 – unrep – case concerning fictitious citations generated by unchecked use of Chat GPT – reported in Law Society Gazette, 29 May 2023
Re Batra – unrep – case concerning the scope of the validation order regime under the Insolvency Act 1986 – commentary in Insolvency Intelligence, 2019, Issue 4, p 159 and Sealy v Milman’s Annotated Guide to the Insolvency Legislation
Absolute Living Developments Ltd (in Liquidation) v DS7 Ltd [2018] EWHC 1432 (Ch) & [2018] EWHC 1717 (Ch) – led by David Mohyuddin KC – cases concerning principles for award of security for costs in relation to companies in liquidation and committal for breach of freezing injunctions
Re Budniok [2017] EWHC 368 (Ch) and related cases – acting as part of the legal and Counsel team for the Crown concerning the interpretation of the then newly instituted bankruptcy application process
Re Warwick – [2017] EWHC 2610 (Ch) – concerning distribution of funds in relation to a company limited by guarantee in liquidation, including concerning deceased or dissolved past members, in the absence of provisions in the Articles as to the same
Montpellier Estates Limited v Leeds City Council [2013] EWHC 166 QB – assisting generally in the preparation of and dealing with various interlocutory hearings
Autofocus Limited/Accident Exchange Limited litigation (2012-13) – assisting in the appeals in numerous cases arising from the fraudulent manufacturing of “expert” evidence in credit hire cases
Litigation arising from the Buncefield Oil depot disaster (2008) – assisting a national law firm in relation to an action against the manufacturer of safety devices at the depot