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Richard Todd KC

020 7797 7070 rt@1hc.com

Position

Barrister specialising in matrimonial finance, Trusts of Land Act, Married Women’s Property Act 1882, Schedule 1 of the Children Act, Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, and private law children work; drafting ante-nuptial contracts. Cases include: Marsh v Marsh [1993] 1 WLR 744; Richardson v Richardson (No 1) [1994] 1 WLR 196; Richardson v Richardson (No 2) [1996] 2 FLR 617; H v H [1994] 2 FLR 94; Re H [1996] 4 All ER 27; Power v Power [1996] 3 FCR 337; C v C [1998] 1 AER 67; Re S [2000] 1 FLR 481; Jones v Jones [2000] 3 WLR 1505; N v N [2000] 2 FLR 899; L v L [2002] 2 FCR 412; Re S [2002] 1 FLR 101; Bloch v Bloch [2003] 1 FLR 1; Lambert v Lambert [2003] 2 WLR 631; Wermuth v Wermuth (No 1) [2003] FLR 1022 and (No 2) [2003] 1 FLR 1029; Re B [2003] 2 FLR 1043; Armstrong v Armstrong [2003] 2 FLR 481; K v K [2005] 2 FLR 1137; D v D (recognition of divorces) [2006] 2 FLR 825; SW v RC [2008] 1 FLR 1703; Tracey v Tracey [2006] 2 FCR 481; R v R [2006] 1 FLR 389; H v H [2008] 2 FCR 714; NG v KR (pre-nuptial contract) [2009] 1 FCR 35; J v P [2007] EWHC 704; Radmacher v Granatino [2008] EWCA Civ 1304; P v P [2009] 1 FLR 696; P v P [2010] 1 FLR 1126 ; V v V [2010] 2 FLR 516 ; Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42.

Career

Called 1988; co-author ‘Practical Matrimonial Precedents’ (2 Volumes, Sweet & Maxwell); ‘Essential Family Practice’ (2 Volumes, Butterworths 1999-2002); author ‘At Court’ (FT Law & Tax 2000); articles in: ‘The Lawyer’, ‘Family Law’, ‘Family Matters’, ‘Family Law Journal’; Chambers and Partners ‘Family Law Silk of the Year’ 2010/11’; co-editor, Jowitt’s Dictionary of Law.

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association; called for specific cases to the Hon Kong and Cayman Islands Bars; Recorder (civII).

Education

Royal Hospital School, Holbrook; Trinity College, Oxford (1987 MA Jurisprudence).

Leisure

Travel; historical study (English civil wars 1641, 1647, 1688, 1775, and 20th century).