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Richard Leiper KC KC
Position
Richard is a litigator and advocate, both in the High Court and Employment Tribunals, as well as appeals and arbitrations.
He has a wide-ranging practice, acting for individuals and for businesses, in commercial and statutory employment, including claims concerning directors’ and employees’ duties, remuneration, protection of confidential information and post-termination restrictions, team moves and conspiracy, and claims concerning discrimination, whistleblowing and TUPE. He has also been involved in a number of cases involving serious allegations of fraud, the scope and application of the penalty rule, and professional negligence by solicitors.
He is regularly involved in all stages of a claim, from initial advice and pleading, interim applications, mediations to speedy trials and appeals.
Career
Called 1996; Silk 2017. Gray’s Inn.
Memberships
Employment Law Bar Association; Employment Lawyers Association; Industrial Law Society.
Education
Elizabeth College, Guernsey; University of Birmingham (1994 LLB); Keble College, Oxford (1995 MJur).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Richard Leiper KC – 11KBW ‘Richard has brilliant oratory skills. He is totally unflappable, always fully prepared and a great strategist. One of the best.’
11KBW is ‘a leading set for employment work‘. The team has been kept busy handling large-scale equal pay claims, high-profile industrial relations cases, discrimination matters and whistleblowing claims, to name a few areas of instruction. The ‘authoritative‘ Sean Jones KC handles the full gamut of employment law matters, and Richard Leiper KC is ‘the Rolls Royce standard‘. Recent highlights include the ‘highly impressive‘ Daniel Stilitz KC leading Hannah Slarks for the Department for Business and Trade in Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer, a case heard by the Supreme Court concerning if employees who take part in industrial action can be subjected to disciplinary action short of dismissal; the case concerned a care home worker who was suspended (and therefore not receiving overtime pay), but not dismissed, by her employer. Among the juniors, the ‘exceptional‘ Sophie Belgrove has ‘a deep understanding of all aspects of employment law‘. Amy Rogers KC, Simon Forshaw KC and Judy Stone KC were all elevated to silk in March 2024.