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Richard Wormald KC
Position
Richard’s principle practice areas are in crime; financial crime; civil and commercial litigation; AML; tax and regulatory law; gaming and licensing.
Richard has prosecuted and defended in over 30 murders, as well as many drugs, firearms, kidnap, blackmail and rape cases. He is currently prosecuting in R v Khan & Ors (the Dea-John Reid stabbing) and this year has successfully defended in R v Hicks (murder); and secured a conviction prosecuting in a stranger killing (R v Beckley). He has also undertaken a series of terrorist cases Court of Appeal: R v Ben John – the ‘read Jane Austen case’) and R v Bel, and R v Hamza.
He has an outstanding reputation in fraud and financial crime, where his recent cases include: FCA v Walid Choucair (insider trading); R v Chris Huhne (former Cabinet Minister); FCA v Patrick Cryne (Chairman of Barnsley FC, for revenue recognition fraud). He defended in FCA v Nascimento (Ponzi fraud), R v Davies and others (boiler room fraud) and HMRC v Knight (then the UK’s biggest VAT fraud). He is currently acting for Galina Nikolova (UK biggest benefit fraud) and Ryan Bishti (nightclub owner charged with bribery).
Career
Call 1993; SILK 2019. Qualified Gray’s Inn Advocacy Tutor; Senior External Monitor of the Inns of Court School of Law; Consultant to Arcadia (leadership and professional presentation).
Education
University of York (BA joint Hons); City University, London (MA Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Fraud: crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Richard Wormald KC – Three Raymond Buildings ‘Richard’s advocacy is his greatest strength. He is brilliant and juries love him, as do clients. He simply commands confidence and is incredibly persuasive.’
Three Raymond Buildings is widely considered as having a strong range of criminal silks, many of them active in heavyweight fraud cases. Helen Malcolm KC’s broad experience includes complex and high-value tax fraud cases, while Richard Wormald KC has recently acted for the first defendant in an international £150m cash couriering fraud, involving the alleged use of the hawala system to transfer criminal funds to Dubai. Ben Summers’ ‘methodical, intelligent, and highly strategic approach to the presentation of cases’ is valued by his clients.