Practice Summary

Richard was called in 2005. He specialises in planning & compulsory purchase, environmental, public law.  He undertakes work for private developers, central and local government, public bodies and interest groups.

Richard is a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and from 2007-2010 he was a Newton Trust Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He has lectured and published widely in the areas of public, planning and environmental law, including his books Actions Against Public Officials: Legitimate Expectations, Misstatements and Misconduct (2009, Sweet & Maxwell) and Environmental Judicial Review (2011 forthcoming, Hart).


Planning

Richard’s planning work focuses on advising clients in preparation for, and appearing at public inquiries and in the higher courts.  He also advises clients on all aspects of planning law, including policy formulation, development control and enforcement.  Additionally, Richard advises on compulsory purchase and compensation issues. He promotes CPOs through public inquiries for development schemes, including for town centre redevelopments. For further information on Richard’s planning & compulsory purchase work and examples of recent cases please Click Here.


Public Law

Richard has a wide-ranging public law practice beyond planning and environmental cases. His public law practice includes social security, education, regulatory, local government (including local government finance), EU law and all aspects of human rights law.

Richard has lectured and published widely on the subject of public law and he is Assistant Editor of the journal Judicial Review.
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Environmental Law

Richard’s environmental work covers all aspects of environmental law, including regulatory and enforcement work.  For further information and examples of recent cases please Click Here.

QUALIFICATIONS

Richard read law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (BA 2001; LLM 2003 (First Class). He was awarded the Alexander LLM Scholarship and the Huston Putnam Lowry LLM prize.

Since 2003 Richard has been a supervisor in administrative law teaching students at a number of Cambridge colleges. Richard obtained the BVC (Outstanding) from the College of Law in 2004 and was awarded the Baron Van der Heyden De Lancey Prize by Middle Temple, and the 1 Essex Court Prize for Advocacy by the College of Law, 2004.

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