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Richard Lissack Qc QC
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Position
Richard Lissack QC is head of strategic development at Outer Temple Chambers. In 2008, for the second time in three years, Richard was shortlisted for Barrister of the Year and was highly commended at the Law Society Excellence Awards. He is rated as a leader across the main legal directories in nine areas of law (commercial, banking and financial services, white-collar crime, fraud, employment, health and safety, public inquiries and clinical negligence). In his commercial practice Richard is currently involved in litigation in the Privy Council on an appeal on an issue of forum non conveniens in a multibillion US dollar commercial dispute; the Court of Appeal on behalf of HSBC Private Bank; the Buncefield Oil Refinery litigation; the Foot and Mouth disease outbreak in 2007; the litigation between the government of Brazil and various institutions and individuals before the Privy Council to recover in excess of US$1bn. In financial services and regulation Richard is regularly and currently advising the FSA and significant corporations on issues of case specific and generic importance, including guidance on the future policing of market abuse and insider dealing. In employment he has added a sixth recent Court of Appeal case in this area with instruction in a major test case for Royal Bank of Scotland to his appearances in Lake v BTP; Roads v Central Trains; Smith v Churchill; and Collins v National Theatre, and in the text case, re European Directive and Illegality, Vakante v Addey School. He is also instructed in five equal pay class actions. In public law Richard acted in the pro bono attempt to free the death row prisoner Jack Alderman and has been involved in the UK-driven challenge to the constitutionality of death by lethal injection, before the US Supreme Court. He acted for the appellant in Burke v GMC in the ECHR in his seminal right for life case after appealing in the House of Lords regarding several of the great public issues of today. Richard’s record in health and safety work is unsurpassed including: Hatfield, Potters Bar, Ladbroke Grove and Southall train crash cases; the Lyme Bay tragedy; the sinkings of the Maria Assumpta and the Pescado. He has more recently appeared in the House of Lords in R v Chargot Ltd in a s3/37 test case and R v Southampton University NHS Trust and R v Tulip Group in the Court of Appeal. As a public speaker, Richard is very much in demand and is also consulting editor for the soon to be published major OUP publication on public and private inquiries, as well as a contributor to several publications concerning financial services law.
Career
Called 1978; took silk 1994 (aged 37); part-time judge since 1993; took Silk at the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean 2004; called to New York Bar as foreign legal consultant 2007; admitted as QC to Northern Ireland Bar 2007; admitted to the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts 2008; bencher of Inner Temple 2008; public access accredited barrister.
Member
Institute of Arbitrators; founder board member of newly established Financial Services Lawyers Association 2007.
Leisure
Patron of RADA; Ambassador for Action Aid; climbed Kilimanjaro 2008; racing, hunting, farming, sailing, cycling, theatre and the arts.
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Commercial; Health and safety
