Examples of Richard’s expertise include:

• acting for a local authority on a £93 million dispute with another council arising from a joint venture concerning an energy-from-waste plant, successfully reaching a settlement at mediation;
• acting for an NHS Trust on a PFI matter involving disputes over maintenance standards, planned maintenance and lifecycle works relating to a hospital;
• assisted a local authority to resolve a long-standing dispute in relation to a PFI street lighting project, involving various disputes over planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, reporting failures and deductions from the unitary charge;
• acting for an M&E subcontractor in a dispute with an insolvent principal contractor concerning wrongful termination, inducement of breach of contract and trading whilst insolvent;
• acting for an employer on a £5 million dispute relating to the contractor’s supply of defective temporary modular accommodation;
• acting for a company in relation to dispute concerning the construction of a battery energy storage system;
• acted for a housing provider in a breach of warranty/ indemnity claim relating to the removal, encapsulation or treatment of asbestos;
• advising a construction company on a complex dispute with a partner to a LLP, involving various contractual and restitutionary claims, unfair prejudice and derivative claims;
• acting for a local authority in relation to a PFI housing scheme, involving disputes over capital expenditure arising from various changes of law;
• acting for the defendant in Midland Living CIC v Prospect Housing Ltd [2021] EWHC 2622 (Comm), successfully obtaining a strike out and order for security for costs before negotiating a favourable settlement;
• acting for a local authority, assisting it to successfully defend a £2.4 million procurement claim in the TCC; and
• assisting a local authority to defend a fraudulent misrepresentation claim in the TCC in relation to a PFI integrated waste management project.