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Helen Richardson

Work Department

Crime, Civil and Family

Position

Civil

– Personal Injury
– RTA
– Costs Litigation
– Credit Hire
– Public Liability
– Contract
– Holiday Illness

Miss Richardson has extensive experience in all areas of personal injury litigation, accepting instructions for both Claimant and Defendant work.

Miss Richardson is always available for solicitors to contact her, should they need any assistance at all, throughout any stage of the litigation process.  No query or question is too minor.

A result for any case, no matter how big or small, is returned to solicitors within a maximum of 5 hours and no later. Miss Richardson insists on this as a rule within her practise as she is fully aware of the difficulties a failure to do so can present for instructing solicitors and the time that can be wasted in consistently having to chase counsel for the same.

Written advices are always completed with a maximum 12 hour turnaround. The need for solicitors to have an urgent return on written paperwork is, in her view, highly important.

Miss Richardson accepts instructions for any written paperwork and is also happy to advise informally by telephone or email if a formal, written advice is not necessary.

Miss Richardson is always amenable to assisting solicitors in any way she can, particularly in terms of providing lectures, workshops or professional conferences.  She is also happy to take requests in respect of the same, should any solicitors require exploration of a particular area of law.

Crime

Miss Richardson has extensive experience in criminal law and has been involved in a number of significant cases.  She accepts instructions for both Prosecution and Defence and has particular experience in Private Prosecution work having worked closely with Wirral Borough Council for a number of years, undertaking some of their most important and notable cases.

Miss Richardson has appeared in both the Crown and the Magistrates Court in cases involving the following;

 

• Murder
• Manslaughter
• Rape
• Sexual Assault
• Domestic Assault
• Causing Death by Careless Driving
• Section 18, Grievous Bodily Harm
• Section 47, Actual Bodily Harm
• Common Assault
• Conspiracy to Supply/Supply [of] Class A drugs
• Aggravated Burglary
• Aggravated Vehicle Taking
• Fraud
• Criminal Damage
• Excessive Speed Charges
• Offence of No Insurance
• Breach of a Restraining Order
• Public Interest Immunity

Education

Call: 2013
BA (Hons) Theology at Durham University (2:1)
Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction)
Bar Professional Training Course (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Awarded Lord Denning Scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn 2012