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Having developed a successful practice in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence, Richard now specialises in Civil Insurance Fraud and is a founding member of the Sovereign Chambers Civil Fraud Team.

Richard has extensive experience in all areas of Civil Fraud including Employer’s Liability and Public Liability, but mainly in relation to Road Traffic Accidents. Richard has been instructed on numerous occasions in cases involving fabricated, staged and induced accidents (‘slam-on’), bogus passenger and phantom witness, Low Velocity Impact (‘LVI’), and exaggerated personal injury and damage.
Richard has expertise in dealing with individual frauds, group and family frauds and wider criminally organised fraud rings.

Richard is able to advise at the pre-proceedings stage and conduct conferences with clients and witnesses to test the strength of their evidence in cases where credibility is crucial. He utilises his extensive forensic skills in preparing and drafting the detailed Defences essential in Civil Fraud cases as well as appropriate Part 18 Requests and applications for specific disclosure. He is able to deal with all interlocutory applications that might arise in Civil Fraud cases and has defended many cases at trial both on the Fast Track and Multitrack.

Richard is instructed by most of the country’s leading firms that specialise in Civil Insurance Fraud and many of the UK’s insurance companies.

Richard also lectures and presents seminars on all areas of law relating to Civil Insurance Fraud.

Richard has recently addressed the IFIG AGM on the issue of credit hire fraud.