Richard Bloomfield

Areas of Expertise

• General Civil & Contract
• Family Children & Injunctions
• Insolvency
• Professional negligence
• Regulatory
• Contentious probate
• Judicial Review

About me

"Stellar performer", Chambers Directory 2005

Richard has extensive experience of litigation over almost four decades. He is known for his meticulous preparation and eye for detail. He is numerate and well versed in litigation with a financial angle.

He has been instructed both as led junior and leading junior and has undertaken murder trials both as leading and sole junior.

Richard has appeared in around 20 reported cases and has regularly appeared in the Court of Appeal and Divisional Court.

Richard's interests include sport (football and cricket), theatre, music events and fine food.

Richard is well known in semi professional football in the north east. He has represented a number of clubs in diverse matters such as defending winding up petitions, obtaining entry back into the ground for a club which had been locked out, opposing warrants of entry by electricity companies and recovering debts owed. He has performed various roles such as vice chairman, programme editor, premises licence holder and secretary for clubs and is currently secretary of Ferryhill Greyhound Over 40s, the most successful Over 40s club in the north east. He won the Northern League Programme Award for the 2018-19 season.

Richard is a member of Durham County Cricket Club.

Notable cases

Reported cases: Absolam (1989) 88 CrimAppRep 332 Crime, interview, Codes of Practice, definition of "interview". Attorney-General's Reference (Nos. 5 & 6 of 1991)(1993) 14 Cr.App.Rep(S) 425 Sentence, appeal against unduly lenient sentence for armed robbery. Bedi (1992) 95 Cr.App.Rep 21 Crime, "maker of statement" for purpose of hearsay provisions of Criminal Justice Act 1988 Biddiss & McNeela [1993] CrimLR 392 Crime, proof that an item is a firearm in the absence of a statement from a ballistics expert. Bradley [2005] EWCA Crim 20 Bad character, commencement date, first ever case under the bad character provisions Dhindsa -v- D.P.P [1992] C.O.D 396 Crime, proof of specific mental element for counterfeiting and forgery offences. Gutzmore -v- J. Wardley Holdings [1993] I.C.R 581 Employment, inconsistent oral and written decisions by tribunal. Hay & Connelly -v- I.B.S. Cladding, Kemp & Kemp 23-102 Personal injury, apportionment under the Fatal Accidents Act. Prince -v- Robinson (1999) 31 H.L.R 89 Housing, frustration of residential tenancy by fire. R -v- Derwentside Justices ex parte Swift & R -v- Sunderland Justices ex parte Bate [1997] RTR 89 Crime, proof of previous conviction pursuant to section 73, Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. R -v- Derwentside Magistrates Court ex parte Heaviside [1996] RTR 384 R -v- Immigration Appeal Tribunal ex parte Shukla [1990] C.O.D 169 Judicial review, deportation order, jurisdiction of adjudicator. R -v- Liverpool CC ex parte Filla [1996] C.O.D 24 Judicial review, costs. R -v- Liverpool CC ex parte Johnson [1995] C.O.D 200 Judicial review, construction of the statutory powers of a local authority in the administration of housing benefit. R -v- Liverpool CC ex parte Riley [1996] C.O.D 120 R -v- Rent Officer Service ex parte Kelly & Muldoon [1996] 1 W.L.R 1103 Judicial review, meaning of person "directly affected" for the purpose of judicial review proceedings. Crime, environmental offences, R -v- Sefton M.B.C ex parte Harrison [1995] C.O.D 178 R -v- Trafalgar Leisure [2009] PTSR 1476 Crime, environmental offences, whether the judge was correct to reject an submission of no case to answer Venness -v- N.U.P.E [1992] I.C.R 193 Trade unions, whether statutory process for questioning an election is exhaustive or whether election susceptible to challenge by action. Walter Braund (London) -v- Murray [1991] I.C.R 327 Employment, whether statutory maximum should be applied to amount recoverable by applicant before or after reduction for contributory fault.