No.6 Barristers - specialist legal services in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK

Richard Wright QC

Richard is a member of the Criminal, and Regulatory Crime teams.

Consistently rated by Legal 500 as "an excellent junior" and in 2011 as "the stand out junior", Richard Wright is regularly instructed by the prosecution and defence in the most grave and high profile cases, often as leading junior counsel. His expertise extends to all aspects of the Criminal Law but with a particular focus on drug trafficking, fraud, homicide and serious sexual offences

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Areas of Practice:

Crime

Background:

Orwell High School, Felixstowe

University of Leeds LLB (Hons)

Inns of Court School of Law

Called Middle Temple (Diplock scholarship)

Hughes Prize 1997

Pupil of Tim Stead at No.6

Queens Counsel: March 2013

Areas of Speciality:

Serious and Organised Crime

Drug importation

Homicide

Firearms related offences

Serious sexual Offences

Professional memberships and Significant Appointments:

Recorder: November 2012

Criminal Bar Association

Liberty

North Eastern Circuit

Junior of the North Eastern Circuit

Deputy District Judge (Magistrates Courts) 2006

Junior of the York Bar Mess

Notable cases:

* R v H [House of Lords] - Led Junior for the appellant - Leading authority on comptability of fitness to plead legislation with Article 6 ECHR

* R v John Humble - Led Junior for the Crown (Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer)

* R v Mahmood - Defence Counsel in attempted murder and large scale violent disorder

* R v Morgan - Successful defence of a man accused of raping a prostitute

* R v Ian Forster Davison - Led Junior for the Defence (Terrorism - First ever prosecution for producing a chemical weapon)

* R v Bard and 26 others - Led Junior for the Crown in a case that tested the limits of the defences of necessity and duress in cases concerning the right to lawful protest (Drax power station protest)

* R v Raheem Nawaz - Prosecution Counsel (Attempted murder of seven innocent victims by schizophrenic)

* R v Peter Brown - Led Junior for the Crown (Arson attack on a block of flats in Malton which claimed the lives of two young jockeys)

* R v Jolliff and others - Leading Junior for the Crown (multi million pound cannabis importation)

* R v Buchan and 12 others - Leading Junior for the Crown (Extensive cocaine supply and money laundering conspiracy)

* R v Parmjit Singh - Leading Junior for the defence (Money Laundering)

* R v Marlon Small - Led Junior for the defence. Secured the acquittal of the accused on the allegation of murder (Murder and Firearms offences)