Richard Broadbent
Director, Environmental Law,
Freeths
Richard was a solicitor at Natural England since 2010 and was the Head of Legal Services since 2017. Richard then joined Freeths LLP in January 2022.
Richard led on many of Natural England’s high-profile litigation and enforcement cases and provided advice to Natural England’s teams, for example, on the emergence of the Environment Act 2021 and Nature Recovery Green Paper.
Richard is a highly distinguished environmental lawyer and has worked on a number of high-profile nationally significant infrastructure, planning, and species licencing cases. Richard trained at Collyer Bristow LLP in London and holds an LLM in Environmental Law from UCL.