Richard Locke

Richard is a Partner and an elected partner on the firm’s board of management. He is also Group Head of the ever expanding dispute resolution team at Hugh James. He conducts major commercial disputes frequently with an international flavour including commercial claims, mining disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, contentious IT disputes, injunctive relief and insolvency. Recent cases include; multi million pound international commercial contract dispute, advised on a complex multi million pound government agency IT dispute, recently successfully settled a commercial contract dispute for a waste management company against a local authority LAWDAC, regularly obtains interlocutory injunctive relief for some clients and headed a recent claim against a well known boxing promoter on behalf of the Millennium Stadium Plc. Richard is also an ADR Group accredited mediator. · Hugh James

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Richard Locke is a Partner at Hugh James in Wales, an elected member of the firm's board of management and Group Head of the Dispute Resolution team. He conducts major commercial and international disputes — including mining, shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence, contentious IT matters, injunctive relief and insolvency — and is an ADR Group accredited mediator.

Practice areas

Dispute ResolutionLitigationInsolvency and Corporate RecoveryProfessional NegligenceTechnology & ITCorporate / M&ANatural Resources & MiningAlternative Dispute Resolution

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Wales

Hugh James · Richard is a Partner and an elected partner on the firm’s board of management. He is also Group Head of the ever expanding dispute resolution team at Hugh James. He conducts major commercial disputes frequently with an international flavour including commercial claims, mining disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, contentious IT disputes, injunctive relief and insolvency. Recent cases include; multi million pound international commercial contract dispute, advised on a complex multi million pound government agency IT dispute, recently successfully settled a commercial contract dispute for a waste management company against a local authority LAWDAC, regularly obtains interlocutory injunctive relief for some clients and headed a recent claim against a well known boxing promoter on behalf of the Millennium Stadium Plc. Richard is also an ADR Group accredited mediator.

Wales

Expertise

Mining disputesShareholder and partnership disputesProfessional negligenceContentious IT disputes (including government agency IT matters)Interlocutory injunctive reliefInsolvency-related litigationWaste management / local authority disputesSports / stadia disputes

Education

Cardiff University (2(1) Hons)
Cardiff Law School (LPC)

Admissions

Qualified as a solicitor, 2000

Languages

Welsh