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Ashtons Legal Offices
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Portman House
120 Princes Street
IPSWICH
IP1 1RS
England
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Richard Foyster
Work Department
Personal Injury: Claimant
Position
Partner and Head of Personal Injury
Career
Richard is Head of Personal Injury at Ashtons Legal and specialises in complex injury claims.
Richard has a reputation for taking on and winning complex cases, whether arising from accidents at work, on the road, through public liability or otherwise.
Richard’s varied caseload includes acting for clients who have suffered the broadest range of injuries, including spinal injury, limb fractures, or brain injury. His practice also includes cases which other solicitors have turned away or failed to properly progress, leading the clients to seek alternative legal representation.
Richard is passionate about the importance and benefit of clients having access to early rehabilitation, care and support following serious injury and recognises the positive effects this can have not only upon the life of the injured victim but also upon those closest to them.
Richard is highly experienced and has settled many high-value claims (those with values in excess of £1 million), both through negotiation and the Courts, a recent one involving a vulnerable client whose award for damages in excess of £4 million was approved in the High Court and Richard was commended by the Judge.
Richard leads the Ashtons Legal Tier 1 (Legal 500) Personal Injury team, who say that Richard is “always on hand to provide representation to the underdog, providing clients with excellent service.” He is also ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and Partners for Claimant personal injury work.
Richard is recognised by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers as a Senior Litigator and is a member of the Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel.
Richard is a member of the Forum of Complex Injury Solicitors and is a trustee of Headway Suffolk and Felixstowe Citizens Advice.
Outside of work, Richard enjoys spending time with his family. He also enjoys trail running, following Watford FC and coaching cricket and rugby.
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