Richard Wilkins is a legal director in the dispute resolution team.

Richard acts for organisations and individuals in commercial and non-commercial disputes, including professional negligence, insurance, governance and judicial review. He has particular experience of the education sector.

Richard joined Russell-Cooke in 2023 following a career largely at a major national firm, where he became a partner in 2009.

Instructions in interesting, notable or particularly challenging disputes have been many, including:

• for a major insurer in multiple disputed claims  concerning Covid 19 business interruption insurance
• defending multi party litigation arising from well publicised deficiencies in a national regulatory body through to the Court of Appeal
• a high profile judicial review challenge to the lawfulness of allegedly socially discriminatory school admissions
• litigation concerning the liability of local authorities for financial advice to children in their care
• alleged systemic discrimination in the bar disciplinary process, including to the Supreme Court
• an unusually difficult residents’ association dispute concerning historic covenants, rights of way and trustee obligations
• alleged unlawful collusion between London solicitors and “oligarch” clients concerning property transactions
• attempts to broaden solicitors’ responsibilities to “overlooked beneficiaries” under a disputed will
• judicial reviews concerning student sexual misconduct

• Read History, Wadham College Oxford
• Called to the bar in 1996