Richard Wormald KC

Practice Areas

Richard's fields of practice are: Crime, Fraud, Civil Litigation, Licensing and Gaming, Professional Discipline and Regulatory, Public and Administrative law, Inquests, Tax Tribunals.

Currently engaged in: defending a Police Commissioner charged with election fraud; UK’s largest organized-benefits fraud; a private equity fund partnership trial in the High Court; a proprietary estoppel case and an unfair prejudice petition in the Business and Property Court; a civil fraud relating Bitcoin and false tax demands; conducting a private prosecution in an investor fraud; Terrorism Act appeals (instructed at the request of the Vice-President, by the Registrar); murder; conspiracy to murder; money-laundering; director’s disqualification. In the recent past: insider dealing; boiler room fraud; heroin smuggling. Commended by the Home Secretary (for prosecuting people trafficking cases); awarded crime junior of the year.

Career

Call 1993; KC 2019. Qualified Gray’s Inn Advocacy Tutor; Senior External Monitor of the Inns of Court School of Law; Consultant to Arcadia (leadership and professional presentation skills); ‘Advocation’ workshops. Directorships and NEDs.