Richie’s relevant experience includes:
- Assisting Robert James when acting for the successful appellants in the Supreme Court proprietary estoppel case of Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27
- Acting for both claimants and defendants in high-value proprietary estoppel claims and similar litigation involving resulting and constructive trusts, trusts of land and orders for sale.
- Advising on and acting for clients concerning challenges to wills on the grounds of capacity, due execution and undue influence
- Conducting a successful agricultural business rates appeal in the Upper Tribunal (Lands Tribunal)
- Representing landowners when making and defending applications to divert public rights of way
- Successfully defending a claim at trial concerning an alleged equitable tenancy; a contractual licence; a constructive trust; and implied rights of way over the client’s farmland.
- Acting for and advising on high value partnership disputes, to include contested dissolutions
- Commercial litigation involving express, implied and collateral contract disputes; high value sale of goods claims including misrepresentation and breaches of warranty.
- Professional negligence claims against professional advisors