Philip Havers QC and Richard Mumford successfully resist appeal in consent case - Jun 2018
Health Law
Richard frequently acts in a range of health and healthcare-related matters. He has acted on behalf of a counsellor as an interested party to Crown Court proceedings involving questions of data protection and patient confidentiality. He has also advised one of the major Medical Defence Organisations on policy issues of patient confidentiality during PCT inspections and acted in a number of cases concerning challenges to contractual terms imposed on GPs and dentists and termination of GMS/GDS contracts.
Recently, he has appeared on behalf of a healthcare practitioner as an intervener to care proceedings under the Children Act 1989. Richard also has experience of best interests proceedings and other Court of Protection matters. He successfully represented 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.
Selected Cases
View full profile »Richard Mumford acts for family at inquest leading to review of baby deaths - Apr 2017
Ivy Morris died aged 4 months as a result of injuries sustained during her delivery at the Princess Royal Hospital, Telford. Richard (instructed by Penningtons solicitors) represented Ivy's family...
Profits from the sale of the Inquest Book given to the Bar Pro Bono Unit - Nov 2016
The Inquest Book: The Law on Coroners and Inquests edited by Caroline Cross was published earlier this year. This week, profits raised of £954.41 have been donated to the Bar Pro Bono Unit by the...
Illegal drug use a bar to care and deputyship claim - May 2016
Robert Seabrook QC and Richard Mumford appeared on behalf of the Defendant Trust in AB v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC 1024 (QB), Irwin J, 4 May 2016. The claimant, who...
1COR quiz team wins the Leigh Day / Silverlining Brain Injury Charity Quiz night - Feb 2015
1COR beat all the competition in the Leigh Day / Silverlining Brain Injury Quiz on Thursday 12 February 2015. The team consisted of 8 members of Chambers; Amelia Walker, Lois Williams, Judith...
London and Brighton Members and clerks take part in the London to Brighton Bike ride - May 2014
A team of keen cyclists from both 1COR and COR Brighton are taking part in the London to Brighton Bike Ride on the 15th June. The team comprises: Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC, David Balcombe QC, John...
Richard Mumford represents a nurse in disciplinary hearings for not disclosing her partners criminal convictions - Apr 2014
Richard acted for a nurse in a disciplinary hearing brought against a newly-qualified nurse who, when applying for a job as a paediatric nurse, had not disclosed her partner's convictions for sexual...
Richard Mumford successful in Employment Appeal Tribunal - Mar 2014
In Taylor v Swissport (judgment handed down 7 March 2014 available here.) Richard acted successfully for a claimant in the EAT in a case concerning unfair dismissal and disability discrimination. ...
Ten 1COR members and our Chambers Academic have contributed to the 3rd Edition of “Burnett-Hall on Environmental Law” - Feb 2013
David Hart QC, Angus McCullough QC, Owain Thomas, Jeremy Hyam, Suzanne Lambert, Richard Mumford, John Jolliffe, Rachel Marcus, Matthew Donmall, Karwan Eskerie and Rosalind English (our Chambers...
Richard Mumford successfully defends private hospital in shoulder injury claim - Dec 2012
Following a two-day trial in the High Court, on 30 November 2012 Mr Justice Eady dismissed a claim brought against the King Edward VII Hospital. The hospital, represented by Richard Mumford,...
Richard Mumford in inquest into death through neglect of a man in intensive care - Nov 2012
On 22 October 2012, following a 7-day inquest, the Coroner for the District of Avon concluded that neglect contributed to the death of man in a hospital's Intensive Care Unit. Richard Mumford...
Team of four from 1COR in Supreme Court win in nuclear testing limitation case - Mar 2012
Four members of 1 Crown Office Row (David Evans, Richard Mumford, Matthew Donmall and Isabel McArdle) formed part of a team of counsel acting for the Ministry of Defence in the Atomic Veterans...
Richard Mumford successful in £4.45m hospital consultant Employment Tribunal case - Dec 2011
On 16 December 2011 the Leeds Employment Tribunal handed down its judgment on remedy in Michalak v The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust & Ors, awarding Dr Michalak a total of £4,452,202.60...
Court of Appeal victory for Ministry of Defence in Atomic Veterans case - Dec 2010
