Richard Eaton > Birketts LLP > Ipswich, England > Lawyer Profile
Birketts LLP Offices
Providence House
141-145 Princes Street
IPSWICH
IP1 1QJ
England
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Richard Eaton
Work Department
Environment, Health, Planning, Property Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Richard joined Birketts in 2004. He is a Partner and Head of our Property Litigation Team.
Richard has a broad range of experience in property, planning and public law. A litigation specialist, he has extensive advocacy experience having gained his rights of audience for all higher courts. He regularly acts as advocate in property and contentious planning matters in the County Court, First Tier Tribunal and High Court. He also has experience as a junior in the appellate courts. Most recently he was junior to Richard Wald KC. for the successful registration applicant in the leading town and village green case TW Logistics v Essex and Ian Tucker [2021] UKSC 4.
His property background covers all aspects of real property and landlord and tenant work. Richard has also developed his environmental practice in the area of noise protection for music industry clients. He acted successfully in protecting the renowned Air Studios from potentially disruptive basement development and is currently instructed on a case involving a grant of a noise easement to a music studio client.
Memberships
Richard is a member of the Property Litigation Association and United Kingdom Environmental Law Association. Between 2006 and January 2010, Richard sat on the board of Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust as a Non Executive Director.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Real estate > Property litigation
(Leading individuals)At Birketts LLP , ‘the property litigation team is of the highest quality‘, and the firm ‘easily competes with the major City and national firms‘. Practice head Richard Eaton, whose current caseload includes numerous matters for music studios in London, and partner James Robinson are the key practitioners in Ipswich. Alice Harris is ‘proactive, intelligent, with a great eye for detail‘. John Scannell and senior associate and barrister Simon Woodhead in Norwich are the main practitioners in Norwich. Legal director Lynsey Ellard in Cambridge is ‘very astute and knows when to take a measured approach‘. Legal director Laura Tanguay in Ipswich and associate Stephanie Butler in Cambridge are ‘outstandingly able and hardworking‘.
East Anglia > Real estate > Planning and environment
Birketts LLP ‘offers top-notch legal advice without the price-tag of a London firm‘. The firm frequently handles large-scale developments, as well as contentious planning and environment matters. It counts Breckland District Council, Persimmon Homes and Hill Residential among its clients. The practice is led by Tom Newcombe in Cambridge (who ‘always approaches every challenge with a positive attitude‘) and, in Ipswich, Deborah Sharples (whose ‘analytical approach to both prosecution and defence matters is faultless‘) and Richard Eaton. Legal director Nicola Doole and senior associate Chloe Glason, both based in in Ipswich have extensive planning experience. Legal director Nikki Fonseka and senior associate Steven Bell are the key contacts in Norwich.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals East Anglia > Real estate > Property litigation
- Planning and environment East Anglia > Real estate
- Property litigation East Anglia > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
- Transport > Transport and shipping