Richard Bacon

Principal Associate

richardbacon@eversheds-sutherland.com

+44 20 7919 4846

+44 7469 124972

United Kingdom

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+44 20 7919 4846

+44 7469 124972

Practice areas

Financial services disputes and investigations
Litigation and dispute management
Pensions disputes
Technology, Media and Telecoms

Practice notes

Richard is a Principal Associate in Eversheds Sutherland's Financial Services Disputes and Investigations group, specialising in litigation.

Chambers and Partners 2020 lists Richard as an "Associate to Watch", stating that "he has the technical knowledge, and he is very pleasant to work with" and "he is methodical and considered in his approach, and thorough in his communications".

Richard's litigation practice covers three key areas: pensions and trusts, banking, and data privacy. His cases include Buckinghamshire v Barnardo's (Supreme Court), Shannan v Viavi Solutions UK Limited (High Court and Court of Appeal), Steria v Sopra Steria (High Court), Blatchford v Blatchford (High Court), and the Bell Group litigation (High Court).

Richard is a member of a number of professional organisations, including the Association of Pensions Lawyers, the London Solicitors Litigation Association, and the Society for Computers and Law. He also holds the Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection.

Title	Date
Increased transparency: important changes to information made publicly available by the UK’s ICO	12/01/2023
Supreme Court confirms POCA confiscation order cannot be enforced in priority to proprietary claim	19/07/2022
High Court orders Claimant to join request for Luxembourg freezing order to be varied to give effect to terms of UK freezing order	23/02/2022
Competition Appeal Tribunal grants first opt-out Collective Proceedings Order	01/09/2021
Competition Appeal Tribunal grants first opt-out Collective Proceedings Order	01/09/2021

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Title	Date
Increased transparency: important changes to information made publicly available by the UK’s ICO	12/01/2023
Supreme Court confirms POCA confiscation order cannot be enforced in priority to proprietary claim	19/07/2022
High Court orders Claimant to join request for Luxembourg freezing order to be varied to give effect to terms of UK freezing order	23/02/2022
Competition Appeal Tribunal grants first opt-out Collective Proceedings Order	01/09/2021
Competition Appeal Tribunal grants first opt-out Collective Proceedings Order	01/09/2021
High Court distinguishes between ex and inter partes hearings in its approach to the costs of a worldwide freezing order	02/08/2021
Court of Appeal confirms that “exceptional circumstances” are required for cross-examination on an affidavit pursuant to a Norwich Pharmacal Order	19/07/2021
Court’s jurisdiction to order fortification (or further fortification) of a cross undertaking in damages extends to losses already incurred	12/07/2021
High Court considers Defendant-side Damages Based Agreement (DBA)	07/07/2021
High Court grants search order against a non-party against whom there was no cause of action	31/03/2021
Data Privacy: UK Government confirms no changes to group claims regime	19/02/2021
Court of Appeal reconfirms that, absent special factors, costs will normally be reserved in interim injunction cases	16/02/2021
Supreme Court decides that SFO does not have the power to compel a foreign party to produce documents held overseas	11/02/2021
“Exceptional circumstances” required for cross-examination on Norwich Pharmacal affidavit	08/02/2021
High Court confirms that notifying third parties outside England and Wales of a worldwide freezing order is not improper	09/11/2020
“Subjective” test for pensions rectification applied to unilateral power of amendment	23/09/2020
Data privacy: UK Government launches consultation on group claims	28/08/2020
Court discharges freezing order due to material non-disclosure going to the risk of dissipation	16/06/2020
High Court delivers reminder that search orders are intended to preserve documents and not (without specific provision) provide early disclosure	25/02/2020
Court of Appeal finds that injunctions against “persons unknown” can (i) be framed by reference to a defendant’s intention and (ii) prohibit lawful conduct	13/02/2020
Court of Appeal confirms that, in the context of a post-judgment freezing order, the exception for payments in the ordinary course of business “will sometimes and perhaps usually” be inappropriate	31/05/2019
High Court finds that a third party debt order (“TPDO”) can be used to attach funds held in a solicitor’s client account.	04/12/2018
Third Party Debt Orders: Court provides guidance on determining the situs of a debt, and when a debt becomes “due or accruing due”	05/09/2018
Court clarifies the scope of the standard undertaking not to enforce a worldwide freezing order or seek an order “of a similar nature” outside of England and Wales	03/06/2018
The Court of Appeal confirms the principles to be applied when assessing causation under a crossundertaking in damages	28/02/2018
High Court grants freezing order in support of arbitration award based on findings in such proceedings	05/02/2018
The High Court holds that a third party can be required to fortify an applicant’s crossundertaking in damages on an unlimited basis	30/11/2017
Court of Appeal clarifies test for showing existence of a respondent’s assets that could be subject to a worldwide freezing order (“WFO”)	16/08/2017
A defendant was imprisoned for 18 months for serious breaches of worldwide freezing and search orders.	02/05/2017

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