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Richard heads the Property Litigation team at Stephens Scown, and joined the firm in February 2019. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1998 after reading Law with French Law at the University of Reading and studying law at l’Université Paris Nanterre.

Richard acts on a range of contentious property issues including commercial, residential and agricultural landlord and tenant, freehold, land registration, telecommunications, utilities, wayleaves development matters and property related professional negligence.

He is a joint editor of Aldridge Leasehold Law, a looseleaf textbook on landlord and tenant published by Sweet & Maxwell.

Richard is a member of the Property Litigation Association and the Agricultural Law Association and an associate member of the Pyramus & Thisbe Society (a society for professionals with a particular interest in matters relating to The Party Wall etc. Act 1996).

He is ranked by Chambers and Partners as a leading individual for Real Estate Litigation in the South West and is described as “a seasoned and distinguished litigator”. Sources describe him as a “very hard-working, intelligent and client-focused solicitor.” Others note his “collegiate and robust style” and his “pragmatic approach supported by deep and broad knowledge of property law.”

Outside of work Richard enjoys cycling, swimming and running, as well as French crime novels.