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Richard Keen QC (Dean of Faculty)
Year of Call: 1980
Year of Silk: 1993

07739 639114
richard.keen@axiomadvocates.com

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Richard Keen was admitted to the Faculty in 1980. As a Junior Counsel, his area of practice covered commercial litigation and insurance work. From 1986 to 1993 he was Standing Counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry.

In 1989 he was instructed in the Inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster. Subsequently he was engaged in the litigations which ultimately resolved the claims arising out of the disaster.

Richard was appointed a QC in 1993. Since then his principal area of practice has been commercial litigation, extending to banking, insurance, engineering, construction and offshore energy. His advisory work has included a number of major financial restructurings including British Energy.

In 2000 Richard led the defence of Lamin Fhimah at the trial in the Netherlands relating to the Pan Am/Lockerbie bombing. Fhimah was acquitted.

Richard is listed by the Legal 500 as a leading Counsel in the areas of commercial litigation, construction litigation and media law and in Chambers UK as a "leading silk". In 2006 Richard was elected Treasurer of The Faculty of Advocates and in 2007 Dean of The Faculty of Advocates.

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