richard barr

Richard Barr may have the most spectacular history of profiting from failure of any English lawyer. He claims to have qualified as a lawyer in the USA then got control of the Dawbarns firm because his father had been Senior. Barr and his old school pal barrister Augustus Ullstein got funded by a property developer to continue an action that had failed. Then, Barr saw his chance of profit from the MMR vaccine that in 1992 was withdrawn because it damaged British children; that vaccine had already been withdrawn in Canada before being introduced in Britain. Kirsten Limb walked into his office after working on a sugar beet farm. Barr lost interest in his wife in due course Limb became Mrs Barr. In the meantime, Barr promoted the unqualified Limb as a medical expert. The British government and the pharmaceutical industry were keen to have the truth about MMR vaccines suppressed and who better to do it than Richard Barr, so he got the Group Action contract. And then he got the Gulf War contract and the Sheep Dip contract. All three cases involved the Government imposing unsafe products of the pharmaceutical industry on British citizens, and thus being liable. Barr and Augustus Ullstein QC got together with Kirsten limb and all three actions were directed away from the Government and towards destruction. Barr’s deceptions could cost be very damaging to Dawbarns and in 1998 Barr took his team and the contracts to the London firm, Hodge Jones and Allen. By 1999 Barr, Ullstein and Limb had wrecked the Gulf War and Sheep Dip contracts and had set the MMR contract on a course that would make millions for the lawyers while ensuring that the damaged children would get nothing. Barr was summoned to a disciplinary hearing but instead, he took the MMR contract and his team to law firm Alexander Harris that was setting up a new office in London. Barr continued to profit from MMR litigation until 2004 when legal aid funding was stopped. By that time Alexander Harris knew that it faced negligence claims from clients and recovery of funds by the Legal Aid Board. Barr was booted out and Alexander Harris’ insurers were warned of the situation. Next, he popped up at the Clinical Negligence specialists, Gadsby Wicks, but when questions were asked of his activities he was shown the door. Barr returned to Dawbarns. In fact he’d never left Norfolk; he and Kirsten Limb had been working from a cottage there. Dawbarns accepted him as a sort of tenant; he was to develop a no-win-no-fee business that was supposed to be self-financing. But Barr couldn’t function without vast waste of public funds and he was ejected, again. He continues to live in Norfolk while being a sort of tenant of the London law firm, SCOMO (with Barr involved that should be SCAMO or SCUMO). In the meantime he is associated with disabled charities and is renting out a cottage and a modified barn with disabled facilities. Is he subsidised by the disabled charities with which he is connected?