Richard Guy

Called 1970
Inner Temple

Richard’s main areas of practice are in chancery, administrative and local government law, judicial review and family law. His chancery work covers real property disputes, including easements, rights of way and restrictive covenants as well as contested probate and inheritance. He has appeared in planning enquiries and related judicial reviews on behalf of developers, local planning authorities and third parties. He has acted for local authorities in transport, education and public health litigation as well as in employment, unfair trading and discrimination matters. He has significant experience in child care and child abduction cases and is regularly instructed in connection with applications by cohabitants for shares or enhanced shares in the family home.

Cases of interest

Richard’s interests include tennis, skiing, hill-walking, and literature.

Founding member of the Cornish Bar Association Member of the Bar European Group, the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association and the Family Bar Association

Co-author with Hugh Mercer QC, Commercial Debt in Europe: Recovery and Remedies (Longman 1991)

MA (Oxon)