Richard Menzies > Lamb Chambers (Chambers of Richard Power) > London, England > Barrister Profile

Lamb Chambers (Chambers of Richard Power)
Lamb Chambers
LAMB BUILDING, TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7AS
England

Work Department

Position

Barrister:

Richard is a specialist personal injury practitioner whose practice spans the full breadth of PI claims, from trippers to industrial disease, and from whiplash to tetraplegia. He also undertakes clinical negligence work and cases involving professional negligence arising out of PI & Medical claims. Richard is regularly instructed on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants, and has extensive experience over 25 years of advocacy in the County Court, Coroner’s Court, High Court and Court of Appeal, related advice and drafting, mediation and other forms of ADR.

Richard lectures to both solicitors and barristers on various aspects of personal injury law and has featured on the College of Law’s ‘Legal Network Television’ DVD-based training service. He has written articles on aspects of personal injury law and practice.

Career

  • Year of Call: 1993

Languages

  • English

Memberships

  • Personal Injuries Bar Association
  • Professional Negligence Bar Association

Education

  • Melzer Prize for Physical Sciences (Ward Freman School, Buntingford)
  • MA, Natural Science and Law (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
  • Fitzwilliam College Prize for Natural Sciences
  • Clough Scholarship (Fitzwilliam College)
  • Bar Vocational Course, very competent (Inns of Court School of Law)
  • Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition (Middle Temple)
  • Jules Thorn Scholarship (Middle Temple)

Leisure

  • Film, food and rabbits