Ricky has many years of civil litigation experience and specialises in personal injury litigation, motor claims (with a significant focus on credit hire), property damage litigation, fraud and costs. Ricky has acted for both claimants and defendants and has taken instructions from many reputable insurers including Aviva, AXA, Covea, NFUM, RSA, and Zurich. 

Ricky’s personal injury practice predominantly covers RTAs, EL/PL claims, occupier’s liability, and catastrophic/complex injury. Ricky routinely appears in both the County Court and High Court and acts in both fast track and multi-track matters. Ricky’s practice in this area has seen him conduct interlocutory hearings and trials spanning from basic whiplash matters to amputation and brain damage cases valued at several millions. 

Ricky has established himself as a specialist within the credit hire arena. He has conducted countless credit hire trials, including those at intermediate track and multi-track value, and interlocutory hearings and is well versed with the law surrounding this area. Ricky’s credit hire experience has seen him become involved in building new strategies to dispose of claims early on and tactical advice following potential appeal points. 

Ricky's property practice has increased exponentially in recent times having obtained countless instructions to settle statements of case and advices focusing on a whole range of property damage claims including: escapes of water, fire damage, poor workmanship including defective installation of cavity wall insulation, highways claims, and fallen trees to name a few. Recently, Ricky was successful in recovering damages at trial relating to damage caused by an escape of oil. 

As for Ricky's fraud practice, he has conducted numerous trials and interlocutory hearings concerning fabricated/staged accidents, low velocity impacts, exaggerated claims, and claims involving phantom passengers. He has had secured findings of fundamental dishonesty and has successfully dismissed claims found to have been exaggerated. Ricky has a firm grasp of the fixed costs regime and its interplay with Part 36 and has provided advice dealing with various issues of costs including QOCS. He is well versed with the law surrounding fundamental dishonesty, having regularly advised on the prospects of such findings being made. 

Ricky’s costs practice has grown in recent years alongside his base practices. He has particular experience of dealing with issues relating to fixed costs regime, QOCS provisions, wasted costs applications, and cost budgeting. He is adept at making submissions both in respect of principle costs orders and the quantification of costs. Given his other core practice areas, Ricky is confident in his ability to navigate the fixed costs regime and cost consequences under Part 36. 

Concurrent to his court practice, Ricky also accepts a wide range of advisory and drafting instructions and is happy to provide training to both internal and external clients. Ricky has established a reputation as being approachable and pragmatic with clients commenting on his down to earth attitude. 

Ricky's notable cases include: 

• S & Anor v L & Anor (2025): Ricky was successful in securing damages of circa £50,000 relating to property damage arising from an escape of oil from neighbouring property. 
• F v G Ltd (2023): Ricky successfully dismissed a £70,000 personal injury claim brought by an employee against her employer after she had tripped over upon exiting a lift at her place of work. Ricky defeated the claim having satisfied the Court that the claimant had failed to prove negligence on the part of the defendant or any third party which might have given rise to liability under the Employer’s Liability (Defective Equipment) Act 1969. 
• W v HN LTD (2022): Ricky successfully dismissed a claim brought by a customer who attended a nail salon and alleged that the treatment caused one of her fingers to become infected and the nail to fall off. Ricky defeated the claim both in respect of breach of duty and causation. 
• B v NTC (2021): Ricky successfully dismissed a claim brought by a minor through his litigation friend when the minor slipped on a patch of ice in the school playground. Ricky successfully argued that the defendant had taken all reasonable action to ensure that the minor was safe. 
• S v WMAS NHS (2020): Ricky, acting on behalf of the defendant, successfully dismissed the claimant’s claim at trial based on causation grounds. The claimant had suffered minor whiplash injuries with a psychological component but Ricky was able to draw out several inconsistencies with the claimant’s evidence which resulted in dismissal of the claim. 
• R v T (2019): Ricky acted on behalf of the defendant at a CCMC in an amputation case valued at up to £4 million where the claimant’s leg was crushed between the insured’s vehicle and a wall. Case and costs management comprised several interim applications and included no less than 14 experts on behalf of the claimant and 9 for the defendant. 
• P v A & A Ltd (2019): Ricky drafted contribution proceedings on behalf of the defendant against a third party contractor after settlement had been reached between the claimant and defendant. Such contribution proceedings resulted in the third party indemnifying the defendant in full.