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Richard Barraclough KC KC
Position
Richard Barraclough QC has a broad practice developed after qualifying as a commercial solicitor in the City and over 30 years at the Bar. His criminal work involves fraud, murder, abuse and other very serious crime including money laundering and illegal money lending. He otherwise practises in the area of regulatory, local authority, health and safety (including marine matters) (with an emphasis on structures), personal injury (catastrophic and psychiatric injuries), professional and medical negligence, coronial and administrative law. He has a wide advisory practice relating to fraud, offshore trusts, contracts, corporate and commercial matters, directors/trustee and professional liability and compliance. He sits as legal assessor to the GMC and the GDC. He has an interest in intellectual property, internet liability and the ‘Dark Net’. He has lectured on various matters including the legal aspects of thoracic medicine, abuse of process, the Ogden multipliers, homicide investigation, the pathology of knife crime and intellectual property (civil enforcement). He is a renowned advocate. He has large number of reported cases.
Career
Called 1980; Inner Temple; took silk 2003; admitted as a solicitor (commercial) in 1978.
Languages
Fluent French; good working knowledge of German.
Memberships
PNBA; ALBA; PIBA; FLBA; the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; Medico-Legal Society; the Society for Advanced Legal Studies; the British Academy of Forensic Science.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > South Eastern Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Richard Barraclough KC – Six Pump Court ‘Richard is meticulous in his preparation and leaves no stone unturned in his pursuit of the truth. He commands respect because he is a careful thinker who plans his cases in detail from the outset. His witness care skills are excellent: a balance of calm authority with human empathy.’
Six Pump Court is a ‘solid set with a wealth of experience’ in all areas of criminal practice, with particular expertise in cases involving sexual offences and homicide. Experienced practitioner Richard Barraclough KC recently secured acquittal of a man being tried for murder and manslaughter in a case related to murder of a drug supplier by a competitor, and jointly heads the team with Nina Ellin KC, who is renowned for her ‘calm, confident and reassuring manner’ and successfully defended a young man, aged eighteen at the time of the alleged offence, accused of manslaughter after punching a man who was subsequently punched again by a co-defendant. Peter Alcock has extensive experience of acting for both the defence and the prosecution in criminal cases and acted as prosecutor in a two-handed corporate manslaughter case that involved a fatality at a waste management site (R v FDS Waste Limited & Phillip Pidgely). Danny Moore is a ‘first class defence barrister’ who also prosecutes. ‘Tenacious defender’ John Fitzgerald is known for ‘his meticulous preparation and written applications’ – he and Ellin KC represented a man who was charged with murder and only convicted of lesser offences after a homeless unregistered barrister was beaten to death with, among other objects, a gavel in a car park in Canterbury; a co-defendant was convicted of murder.
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Richard Barraclough KC – Six Pump Court ‘Richard has an enormous capacity for detail, his analytical skills are unique and he is empathetic – he cannot be faulted.’