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.