Richard Tetlow

Call 2006

tetlow@exchangechambers.co.uk

"Richard is a very effective barrister who works incredibly positively with lawyers and lay clients. He also demonstrates great attention to detail."

Chambers and Partners 2025
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  • Recommendations

    “Richard is a very effective barrister who works incredibly positively with lawyers and lay clients. He also demonstrates great attention to detail.”

    “Richard’s written work was first class, but he is also a confident team player prepared to make contributions; he wants to be heard and he is willing to get involved.”

    “Richard is easy to work with and very thorough.”

    “Richard Tetlow is good on his feet. He is a safe pair of hands.”
    Chambers and Partners 2025

    “Richard’s court presence is very strong, and so is his legal research.”

    “Richard is strong in commercial litigation, particularly corporate and shareholder litigation. He is a go-to for depth of knowledge, client management, and skill.”
    The Legal 500 2025

    “Richard is very easy to work with and gives good, commercial advice.”

    “Richard is a very good team player and hard-working. He is an excellent junior.”

    “We were extremely impressed with Richard’s attention to detail and with his advocacy.”
    Chambers and Partners 2024

    “Richard is technically excellent whilst also commercially minded. He impresses clients with a confident but courteous courtroom approach, and he is both meticulous and efficient in drafting pleadings.”
    The Legal 500 2024

    “Richard’s drafting is excellent.”

    “He has a sharp mind and gets to the nub of the issue quickly. He develops a good rapport with clients.”

    Chambers and Partners 2023

    “Richard is commercial in his approach, delivers clear advice and builds a good rapport with clients, which in turn provides them with confidence.”

    “Richard is very thorough with excellent attention to detail. He is great with clients, calm and unflappable on his feet.”

    The Legal 500 2023

    “I look at his style with envy; he is a superb advocate.”

    “He has a magical vision to find ways through difficult cases and pathways to resolutions that others don’t see.”
    Chambers and Partners 2022

    “The qualities Richard has are undoubtedly attention to detail and quality of the work produced. He is also prepared to roll up his sleeves and fight the client’s corner as an advocate if required. The service he provides is however delivered with an overarching commercialism and he gives it to you straight. He would never leave you in any doubt as to the strengths or weakness of a particular point.”
    The Legal 500 2022

    “He is very approachable and very user-friendly.”

    “He is very good on his feet. He is careful and well prepared, and he has a manner that clients can gel with.” “He’s very persuasive in front of a judge and very good at spotting unusual points.”
    Chambers and Partners 2021

    “Good to work with. Team player. Nothing too much trouble. Reliable and hard working.”
    The Legal 500 2021

    “He is very diligent and always well prepared.”
    Chambers and Partners 2020

    “He is a very good barrister and has exactly the right attitude.”

    “He’s an extremely able and user-friendly junior – he is very much a safe pair of hands on all things chancery, commercial and insolvency related.”
    Chambers and Partners 2019

    “He is a future star who is particularly good at cross-examination.”

    “He is very efficient, pleasant to deal with and knows his stuff.”
    Chambers and Partners 2018

  • Education

    • Shrewsbury School, 1997-2002
    • MA (Cantab), Law, Downing College, Cambridge (II.i, 2002-2005)
    • BVC, Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent, 2005-2006)
    • Jules Thorne Scholarship, Middle Temple, 2005
    • Pupillage, 8 King Street, Manchester, 2006-2007 (tenancy 2007 – joined Exchange Chambers in 2008)
    • Junior of the Northern Circuit, 2009

  • Appointments

    • Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional Panel A)

  • Memberships

    • Northern Chancery Bar Association
    • Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
    • Northern Circuit

  • News

Practice Overview

Richard is an experienced junior practising in the Commercial, Commercial Fraud, Insolvency and Property departments, with extensive experience of acting in an advisory capacity or drafting, and in advocacy of all kinds.

  • Richard has a broad commercial practice, covering contractual disputes, banking, mortgages and asset recovery, professional negligence, sale of goods/product liability, company and partnership law and commercial litigation generally.
  • He also practices extensively in insolvency, acting for both office holders and those subject to insolvency proceedings.
  • Richard is also a member of the commercial fraud department, with significant experience in the area.
  • Richard’s practice also covers various areas of property law, including real property disputes, landlord and tenant disputes and trusts.

Richard is listed as a Leading Individual in Chambers & Partners in Commercial Dispute Resolution and Restructuring/Insolvency, and a Leading Junior in The Legal 500 in Company and Insolvency.

He has been variously described as:

  • “He is very good on his feet. He is careful and well prepared, and he has a manner that clients can gel with.” “He’s very persuasive in front of a judge and very good at spotting unusual points.” “He is very approachable and very user-friendly.” (Chambers and Partners 2021)
  • “Good to work with. Team player. Nothing too much trouble. Reliable and hard working.” (The Legal 500 2021)
  • “Very diligent and always well prepared.” (Chambers and Partners 2020)
  • a “talented junior with a burgeoning reputation, who handles a wide variety of commercial disputes including company, contractual and insolvency-related matters”, having “exactly the right attitude” and being an “extremely able and user-friendly junior – he is very much a safe pair of hands on all things chancery, commercial and insolvency related.” (Chambers and Partners 2019)
  • “a future star who is particularly good at cross-examination” (Chambers and Partners 2018)

Richard is Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional A Panel).