Richard Foyster > Ashtons Legal > Ipswich IP4, England > Lawyer Profile
Ashtons Legal Offices
WATERFRONT HOUSE
WHERRY QUAY
IPSWICH
IP4 1AS
England
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Richard Foyster
Work Department
Personal Injury: Claimant
Position
Partner and Head of Personal Injury
Career
Richard qualified in 1996 and has worked at Ashtons Legal for his entire career, starting as a trainee solicitor in 1994 (called Graham & Oldham at the time). Richard was made Partner in 2000.
Richard is Head of Personal Injury at Ashtons Legal and specialises in high value workplace and employer’s liability claims and increasingly on mesothelioma cases. He also represents clients in road traffic accidents, product liability claims and public liability claims.
Languages
English
Memberships
Richard is a Senior Litigator with APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers), and a Panel Member of the Solicitors Regulation Authority Personal Injury Panel (formerly the Law Society Personal Injury Panel).
Education
Richard went to Birmingham University and Limoges University (France) to study Law and French. He obtained a Law/French LLB degree in 1993 with a 2:2 degree. He the went to Chester Law School where he passed his Legal Practice Course in 1994.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading individuals)Ashtons Legal has one of the largest injury services practices in East Anglia and clients remark on ‘a stellar group, committed, clever, dedicated and tenacious in their pursuit of the best realistic outcome for their clients’. The firm has an outstanding reputation in both clinical negligence and personal injury, thanks to the vast experience of its specialist teams. Richard Foyster in Ipswich leads on personal injury matters, while in Bury St Edmunds, Sharon Allison leads the medical negligence practice and Michael Wangermann, who ‘fights tooth and nail for the right result‘, is head of injury services. Also in Bury St Edmunds, Sandra Patton is a long-standing expert in clinical negligence, and senior associate Tom Ranson has ‘a clear and strategic mind‘. Senior associate Mick Upton is highly regarded for fatal accidents, brain injuries, spinal injuries and serious orthopaedic injuries, while the ‘clever, quick and diligent‘ Ben Ward in Norwich leads on catastrophic injury claims.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant East Anglia > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Transport and shipping
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia