Richard Thomas

020 7404 1313 r.thomas@doughtystreet.co.uk

Work Department

Position

Richard has extensive experience of complex and high-profile trials and appeals. He regularly appears in cases which engage the interface between criminal, public and civil law, and many of his cases involve an international dimension, arising out of multi-jurisdictional investigations or prosecutions. Richard advises individuals, organisations and companies who are seeking to manage the risks of contravening criminal legislation (in particular terrorism and financial sanctions regimes) and is often instructed at an early stage, challenging investigative measures and helping clients manage an overall strategy.

He has a substantial Crown Court trial practice but is a versatile advocate and in recent years has received instructions in the Court of Appeal, Privy Council, Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Administrative, Queen’s Bench and Chancery Divisions of the High Court. Richard is also regularly instructed in cases in other common law jurisdictions, predominantly in the Eastern Caribbean, but also Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Isle of Man. 

Richard is a Recorder of the Crown Court sitting in crime on the South Eastern Circuit and has also been appointed a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal.

Career

Called 2002; Inner Temple. Publications of note: co-author, The Law of Public Order and Protest (OUP, 2010); co-author, Blackstone’s Guide to the Proceeds of Crime Act, 4th ed. (OUP, 2011); co-author, Human Rights in the Investigation and Prosecution of Crime (OUP, 2009).

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association

South Eastern Circuit

Education

Exhibitioner of Lincoln College, Oxford (MA (Oxon)).