Healthcare and Court of Protection

Richard frequently acts in a range of health and healthcare-related matters, such as:

  • Representing a counsellor as an interested party to Crown Court proceedings involving questions of data protection and patient confidentiality.
  • Appearing on behalf of a healthcare practitioner as an intervener to care proceedings under the Children Act 1989.
  • Advising one of the major Medical Defence Organisations on policy issues of patient confidentiality during regulatory inspection.
  • Advising and providing representation in relation to challenges to contractual terms imposed on GPs and dentists and termination of GMS/GDS contracts.
  • Representing two (of fifteen) respondents in a £4.45m employment tribunal claim brought by a former hospital consultant involving allegations of aiding sex and race discrimination.
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“He has an incredible ability to cut through the most complicated of medical negligence cases to distill things down to the key issues, which he seems to do effortlessly. Clients are always complimentary and he is fantastic at making sure they are following what is going on in language and terms that they can understand.”

Chambers & Partners 2022

“Approachable and capable with good tactical judgement.”

Legal 500

Awards

  • Lord Denning Scholar & Sunley Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn.
  • Foundation Scholar & Ziegler Prize for Law, Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Memberships

  • ARDL
  • HRLA
  • PNBA
  • PIBA

Publications

  • Co-author of the annually-updated chapter on Clinical Practitioners in the loose-leaf and online publication “Professional Negligence and Liability.”
  • Author of four chapters in “The Inquest Book” Hart Publishing 2016
  • Law Pod UK Ep. 146: 5 Key Medical Law Updates
  • Contributor to the 1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review (QMLR)

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