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Richard Power

Call

Called 1983

Practice groups

Education

BA (Oxon) in Jurisprudence

Practice

Specialises in clinical and professional negligence, personal injuries and the law of costs.

Experience

Clinical negligence: Richard Power has wide experience of all forms of clinical negligence cases, including cerebral palsy, 'wrongful birth', spinal and neurological cases. He acts for both claimants and defendants, appearing in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the county courts.

Personal injuries: He also has long and considerable experience of personal injury cases of all types including those of maximum severity. He is mentioned in the Legal 500 2007 as a leading junior in personal injury cases.

Costs: Richard specialises as well in the law of costs, appearing regularly in the Supreme Court Costs Office and High Court in connection with points of costs law. Richard has been mentioned in the Legal 500 every year since 2004 in connection with his experience of costs law.

Common law: Richard's career at the Bar has embraced a wide range of common law work, involving property, landlord and tenant and contract. He also has an interest in copyright law, in particular as it affects musicians.

Cases

Prior-Egerton v Conway & Denbighshire NHS Trust, 2007, a sex-change operation that went wrong.

Wood v West Midlands Police, 2005, a libel case involving costs of approximately £1million following an award of damages of approximately £46,000, raising the question of CFAs in libel cases.

Conway v Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust, LTL 10/8/2004, a failure to detect a congenital chromosomal defect in a pre-natal test. Tried before Douglas Brown J.

Lynch v Paul Davidson Taylor (a firm) [2004] 1 WLR 1753, the proper construction of section 74(3) of the Solicitors Act 1974 (a costs point), before Hughes J.

Alpacas Ltd v Sir John Wilsey LTL 8/9/2003, the meaning of 'costs of the action'.

Bradshaw v Glan Clwyd DGH NHS Trust, 2002, a failure to diagnose a rupture of a ureter in a child following a motor accident.

Short v Bro Taf HA, 2001, Kemp & Kemp G2-014.1, GBP 497,000 damages in respect of a failed hip replacement operation.

Smith v CICB, 2000, Kemp & Kemp C2-010, damages of GBP 824,000 awarded in respect of brain injury.

Jones v Bro Taf Health Authority 2000, a failure to diagnose meningitis in an infant resulting in severe brain damage. Tried before Thomas J in Swansea.

UKCC v Armugam 1999, two nurses who ran a residential care home were accused of starving their charges, locking them in their rooms without their consent, and putting them to bed in soiled beds.

Czornenkyj v Camden & Islington Health Authority, 1998, division of a sural nerve in the leg. Tried before Daniel Brennan QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge in London.

Fellows v Thomas, 1994, a GP failed to diagnose a subarachnoid haemorrhage which resulted in catastrophic brain damage. Tried before Thomas J in Cardiff.