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Richard Bagwell

Partner

Property Litigation

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About Richard

Richard heads the Property Litigation team at Stephens Scown, and joined the firm in February 2019. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1998 after reading Law with French Law at the University of Reading and studying law at l’Université Paris Nanterre.

Richard acts on a range of contentious property issues including commercial, residential and agricultural landlord and tenant, freehold, land registration, telecommunications, utilities, wayleaves development matters and property related professional negligence.

He is a joint editor of Aldridge Leasehold Law, a looseleaf textbook on landlord and tenant published by Sweet & Maxwell.

Richard is a member of the Property Litigation Association and the Agricultural Law Association and an associate member of the Pyramus & Thisbe Society (a society for professionals with a particular interest in matters relating to The Party Wall etc. Act 1996).

He is ranked by Chambers and Partners as a leading individual for Real Estate Litigation in the South West.

Outside of work Richard enjoys cycling, swimming and running, as well as French crime novels.

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Richard's Testimonials

Chambers and Partners (2026)

Legal 500 (2026) – Leading Partner.

Chambers and Partners (2025)

Legal 500 (2024) – Leading Partner.

Chambers and Partners (2024)

Legal 500 (2024) – Leading Individual.

Chambers and Partners (2023)

Legal 500 (2023) – Leading Individual.

Chambers and Partners (2022)

Legal 500 (2021) – Leading Individual – Richard Bagwell is the practice head and is well versed in landlord-tenant and Electronic Communications Code disputes.

Chambers & Partners (2021)

Legal 500 (2020) – Leading Individual – The “very experienced and highly disciplined” Richard Bagwell leads the team and brings his “keen eye for detail” to a range of contentious property issues.

Chambers and Partners (2020)

Chambers and Partners (2019)

Chambers and Partners (2018)

Chambers and Partners (2017)

Legal 500 (2016) – Richard Bagwell has “a good commercial view for the merits of a dispute.”

Chambers and Partners (2016)

Chambers and Partners (2015)

Chambers and Partners (2014)

Legal 500 (2012) – The “superb” Richard Bagwell has “wide knowledge” of property litigation matters.

Legal 500 (2011) – The “superb negotiator” Richard Bagwell “out manoeuvres the other side.”