Six Pump Court

Year of Call: 1980
Year of Silk: 2003

Practice groups

Civil & Commercial Law
Criminal Law
Family Law
Public, Planning & Environmental Law
Regulatory Law

Education

MA (Oxon)

Memberships

CBA, PNBA, ALBA, PIBA, FLBA, HSLA, PEBA, the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association and the Pan – European Organisation for Personal Injury Lawers, the Medico-Legal Society, the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, the British Academy of Forensic Science and the MIND Lawyers Group.

Profile

Richard Barraclough QC practices in the fields of:

Serious crime
Regulatory crime and related matters
Personal injury in particular catastrophic personal injury
Medical and professional negligence
Commercial litigation
Planning and environmental
Local government
High value ancillary relief cases
Employment

Richard Barraclough QC sits as a Legal Advisor to the General Medical Council and the General Dental Council, and is a former Chairman of the Bar Council’s Disability Committee. He has been appointed to provide an opinion to the Court on commercial leases. He has appeared in the Privy Council capital cases appeals over a number of years. He is accredited by the Law Society to conduct seminars and talks. He has delivered lectures to the British Thoracic Society (asbestos related law), to Solicitors (in crime, civil and planning including inter alia abuse of process and the 6^th edition of the Ogden Multipliers) and to senior investigating officers of the Metropolitan Police on homicide investigation and murder trials. He has been appointed as a Legal Assessor to the General Chiropractic Council.

Cases of Interest include:-

R- v -Christopher Langham (child images)
R -v -Smith (The P&O Ferry The Bilbao) – (shipping, manslaughter)
R –v- Willoughby (2004) EWCA Crim 3365 (reckless manslaughter)
Acted on behalf of the DTI (now DBERR) under the employment agency regulations
Daniels –v- Heinz (Causation) CCRTF 97/1566/2
Birmingham City Council- v –Wyeth (Trading as SMA Nutrition)
R –v- HM Deputy Coroner for Birmingham ex parte Davies 2003/EWHC/618
Sage –v- Maidstone BC (2003) UKHL 22 (planning enforcement)
Re M (contact;violent parent)1999 2FLR 32 (Fam. Div.)
Olson v Maidstone B.C. (licensing)
R -v- Kent Magistrates Court ex Parte Folkestone Court Practitioners & Users Group CO/2787/98
Cutter v Eagle Star Insurance Co. Ltd. [1998] 4 AER 417 (compulsory third party insurance)
Bailey v IBC Vehicles Ltd [1998] 3 AER 570 Burrows v. Montgiardi (costs)
Hafton Properties Ltd v Camp & Another [1994] 03 EG 570 (leases)
Murphy v Director of Public Prosecutions [1990] 2 AER 390
Audit Counsel in the Benzodiazepine litigation