Position and KK Office
Senior Costs Lawyer – Bishop’s Stortford.
Specialisms
Serious Injury.
Role & Responsibilities
Richard left school at sixteen to work as a Solicitor’s Clerk for a firm of Solicitors in Bishop’s Stortford. 2½ years later in January 1985 he joined Kain Knight as a Trainee Draftsman and now enters his 39th year in the profession and is the longest serving member of the Kain Knight Group.
Richard qualified as a Costs Lawyer with rights of audience in 2007. His specialism is drafting Bills, particularly high-value personal injury and clinical negligence matters, although he is also adept as dealing with Court of Protection costs, adverse costs and negotiations, Cost Budgets and Precedent T’s as well as representing clients at Detailed Assessment Hearings and Costs Management Hearings. Essentially Richard is a Law Costs Specialist in every sense of the word.
Richard is part of the Kain Knight Training and Knowledge Committee. He was in part responsible for the ongoing training of Kain Knight Draftsmen and Costs Lawyers and trained many who have moved onto other firms and with their own practices.
Richard is extremely well respected both by his colleagues and the profession alike. He counts amongst his clients major City firms as well as provincial Solicitors who he has enjoyed working relationships with for nearly forty years.
Notable Cases
Richard has worked on many high-profile reported cases to include:
- Miller v. Miller [2005] EWCA Civ 984
- Crossley v. Crossley [2007] EWCA Civ 19491
- Burton v. Cranfield Delta Whiskey Ltd, SCCO Ref: JR 1305032.
Education & Qualifications
Association of Cost Lawyers.
Interests
Outside of work Richard is married to Sarah with three children, Sophie, Erica, and Jimmy. He was Chair of his son’s school’s Parent Teachers Association, a responsibility he enjoyed immensely and still assists in fundraising in his part time role as Father Christmas. Before injuries took their toll he participated in sports to include football and cricket and continues to enjoy a round of golf now and again. When he gets chance, he spends his Saturday afternoons watching Cambridge United FC.
