London Bar
Employment
HALL OF FAME2Richard Leiper KC – 11KBW 'Richard is thorough, reliable, has excellent analytical and tactical skills and always focuses on the client's needs and aims.'
Richard Leiper
- Phone020 7632 8500
- Email[email protected]
Position
Richard is a litigator and advocate, both in the High Court and Employment Tribunals, as well as in appeals.
He has a wide-ranging practice, acting for individuals and for businesses. Recent cases encompass the duties of senior employees, directors, and shareholders; confidential information and restraint of trade; complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims; penalty clauses; and professional negligence by solicitors.
He is regularly involved in all stages of a claim, from initial advice and pleading, interim applications, mediations to speedy trials and appeals.
In the Who’s Who Legal UK Bar Report 2019, Richard was identified as one of the 7 most highly regarded silks in employment law, adding that he “gains extensive praise as ‘a real star of the Bar’, and an��‘absolutely outstanding, confident, commercial and diligent advocate’.”
Education
Elizabeth College, Guernsey; University of Birmingham (1994 LLB); Keble College, Oxford (1995 MJur).