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Richard Booth KC
Position
Richard Booth KC has practised at 1 Crown Office Row since being called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1993 and is our current Head of Chambers.
He specialises in clinical negligence, disciplinary / regulatory law, personal injury (especially brain and sports injuries), costs, inquests and sports law.
Career
Call: 1993; KC: 2013; Middle Temple.
Junior counsel to the Crown (Attorney General’s regional panel) 2000-2012;
Recorder (Wales Circuit) since 2008.
Richard grew up in South Wales before taking degrees in Cambridge and Brussels. As a junior, he had a broad base of advocacy experience in a variety of courts and tribunals the length and breadth of the country.
Languages
French, Spanish.
Memberships
Bar European Group; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Employment Law Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; British Association for Sport and Law.
Education
Monmouth School; Michaelhouse, Natal; Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (MA Hons); Université Libre de Bruxelles (Master’s in European Law – Lic.Spec.Dr.Eur).
Leisure
Sport (especially rugby), surfing, promoting live music.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Richard Booth KC –1 Crown Office Row ‘A real star of the clinical negligence Bar.’
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Richard Booth KC – 1 Crown Office Row ‘An extremely authoritative silk who is so easy to listen to when on his feet. He has exceptional analytical skills.’