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FRANCIS TAYLOR BUILDING, INNER TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7BY
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Richard Glover KC
Work Department
- Planning
- Rating
- Local Government
- Compulsory Purchase and Compensation
- Parliamentary
- Infrastructure
- Administrative
- Mediation
Position
Richard Glover KC practices in town and country planning, local government, rating, compulsory purchase and compensation law, parliamentary bills, infrastructure, and administrative law. He is a CEDR accredited mediator.
He has a wealth of experience and a strong reputation for advising and conducting litigation and mediation – both in England & Wales and further afield (having been involved in cases in Northern Ireland, Hong Kong, the Caribbean and Ascension Island) – in those fields. He appears regularly at inquiries, in tribunals and the courts. He acts for claimants, ratepayers, developers and local authorities.
Recently, he has been involved in multi-million pound cases for BT, the GLA, Salford City Council, a range of water companies (including Anglian, Northumbrian, United Utilities and Yorkshire), Virgin Media, Belfast International Airport, Harrods and a number of clients with claims arising out of HS2.
He is Leader of the Parliamentary Bar.
He is General Editor of Ryde on Rating & the Council Tax, the leading text book on rating.
He is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Compulsory Purchase and Compensation.
Career
Called 1984. QC 2009.
Memberships
Planning and Environment Bar Association
Parliamentary Bar
Education
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Planning
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Richard Glover KC –Francis Taylor Building ‘Richard gives clear and well-structured advice. He is attentive to the needs of clients, and not afraid to have difficult conversations with the client team to get the best results.-
London Bar > Local government (including rating law)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Richard Glover KC – Francis Taylor Building ‘He has a total command of his brief and an authoritative presence in court.’
Francis Taylor Building contains ‘some of the brightest and best barristers in this field’, routinely acting in local government and ratings matters. Richard Glover KC led Cain Ormondroyd in Church of Scientology Religious Education College Inc v Ricketts (VO), a complex appeal in the Upper Tribunal regarding the application of religious rate-exemptions for the Scientology movement’s London sites. Richard Honey KC represented JD Wetherspoon as sole counsel in a settled claim between JD Wetherspoon and Birmingham City Council over compensation for the compulsory acquisition of one of the pub chain’s leaseholds. Hugh Flanagan acted in the test case of Vistra International v Bunyan (VO), a dispute regarding whether Covid-19-related factors affected liability for business rates.