Practice Profile
Richard Guy is an associate tenant whilst also practicing from Godolphin Chambers in Truro. His main specialisations are in Chancery Employment and Local Government matters. He was in practice at Queen Elizabeth Buildings in the Temple for over twenty years
Chancery
- Property disputes
- Easements and rights of way
- Restrictive covenants
- Wills and inheritance
- Trusts
- Professional Negligence
Employment
- Redundancy and unfair dismissal
- Disability Sex and Race Discrimination
Local Government
- Planning, Public Health, Transport, Unfair Trading
He has extensive experience in High Court litigation and in appearing in county courts, the Court of Protection, employment tribunals, land registry adjudications, land tribunals, planning appeals and applications for judicial review.
A cross section of his West Country cases would include :-
Castlematter v Carrick DC 2008 (planning permission quashed by judicial review because it had been granted without going through the screening process)
Friends of the Camel Valley v SoS for the Environment and North Cornwall DC 1998 (Inspector’s decision to permit re-introduction of railway quashed by judicial review)
Pye v SoS for the Environment and North Cornwall DC 1998 3 PLR 72 (Successful application under the 1973 Act held to be a wholly new planning permission.)
Betteson v Langton (approved in House of Lords 2002 AC 27) established right to sell rights of pasture independently from the farms to which they were annexed.
Rundle v Royal Bristol Hospital 2001 (medical negligence which with other cases led to the Bristol Heart Surgeons Inquiry)
Re M 2001 2 FLR 236(Using section 7 of the Human Rights Act to obtain an order quashing a local authority decision without proceeding via judicial review)
R v Cornwall County Council ex parte LH 2000 1 FLR 236 (Establishing by judicial review parents’ right to be legally represented at child protection conferences)
Personal interests : tennis, skiing, hillwalking and literature
Member of the Bar European Group and the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association.
Co-author (with Hugh Mercer QC ) of Commercial Debt in Europe : Recovery and Remedies
Richard sits on an Exceptional Treatment Panel of an NHS Primary Care Trust.
MA (Oxon).
Contact
Please telephone 01752 221551 or email our clerking team
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