New Park Court Chambers

Crime, Regulatory, Civil

Richard Holland is an advocate who appears in cases of significant legal and factual complexity. At ease with professional and lay clients alike, he provides each case with bespoke and timely advice and attention.

Richard has been a member of New Park Court Chambers since September 2015, having successfully completed his pupillage in chambers under the supervision of Nicholas De La Poer KC.

Crime

Richard prosecutes and defends case of the utmost seriousness and has particular experience in large scale conspiracies concerning serious violence, firearms, drugs, and human trafficking. He is used to the pressure of working in such cases and the understandably high expectations both defendants and police/prosecution teams have about the presentation of their case.

Regulatory

Richard takes instructions in regulatory matters, including professional discipline, regulatory compliance, inquests, health and safety and licensing. Richard prosecutes on behalf of the General Medical Council, including at Fitness to Practise Hearings before the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service.

Richard’s cases with the GMC have included presenting allegations of dishonesty and lack of candour concerning the outcome of surgery, the inappropriate and dishonest prescribing to family members, financial misconduct by doctors both at work and outside of it, and poor clinical practice leading to harm to patients.

His GMC practice, together with his clinical negligence work, means Richard has a significant cross-over experience in inquests where medical professionals are suggested to have had some role in a death.

Richard is also familiar with the policies and procedures of the SRA and the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, including having been led in 2018 in a three-week long hearing relating to alleged overcharging by a senior solicitor. Richard was extensively involved in the preparation, tactical considerations, and pleading of the client’s case, as well as the interlocutory applications that preceded the final hearing.

Richard’s enjoys an esoteric regulatory advice practice.  Some of the cases he has advised on have included:

• A local authority considering prosecution under Health and Safety legislation of a fast-food restaurant where a young employee had been scalded in the course of their duties;
• The manufacturer of a set of traps for pest-control whether their design complied with the Pest Control Act 1954, the Spring Traps Approval Order 2018 and local licensing requirements for any potential purchasers;
• A local authority about their options in a prosecution relating to the infringement by the defendants of Planning Enforcement Notices;
• A company regarding its regulatory responsibilities and the effect of EU Product Safety Directives when importing mobile telephones from fellow EU countries and replacing chargers so that the products could be sold on the UK market.
• Advising, and drafting responses for, a Turkish Gold and Jewellery supplier as to the evidence required to prove the legitimacy of 3000 gold bullion coins seized by HMRC from couriers as they left Heathrow, ultimately leading to a successful return of the gold by HMRC.
• Advising on appeal and drafting notice of objections for haulage companies and drivers whom the Secretary of State for the Home Office had imposed penalties contrary to section 32 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and Carriers’ Liability Regulations 2002 for clandestine entrants entering or attempting to enter the United Kingdom being discovered in the back of commercial haulage vehicles.

Clinical Negligence

Richard has an extensive experience of clinical negligence work.  Before joining Chambers, Richard managed his own caseload at Irwin Mitchell solicitors in the clinical negligence and product liability teams, covering cases where quantum ranged from £10,000 to over £200,000. Cases involved representing Claimants in various metal-on-metal hip litigations, representing a Claimant who had received a transplant of Hepatitis E contaminated platelets, and representing a Claimant pursuing damages arising out of the failure of his defective ICD leads.

Richard enjoys a business practice of clinical negligence work as Counsel, including drafting particulars of claim, schedules of loss, advising on prospects and quantum, and conducting conferences with experts.

CPS RASSO Panel Advocate CPS Level 4 Prosecutor