Richard Egan

Richard Egan is an English solicitor known for his work and advocacy in high-profile criminal defence cases. He is also known as a charity worker and a recipient of Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year award he was awarded in recognition for his work defending Lotfi Raissi who was wrongly accused of training September 11 hijackers. In 2014 Egan came to notice after successful defence of Tania Clarence who was charged with murder of her two children after her unsuccessful legal battle with social workers. After a series of defence motions, murder charge was reduced to that of a manslaughter by diminished responsibility and Clarence was given a hospital order. Career Egan qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and joined Tuckers Solicitors, law firm based in London, where he became a partner in 2001. His work is focused mainly on criminal defense. Experience Egan is a member of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association and Association of Military Court Advocates and Justice. He has gathered local attention in London for his aggressive defence style and was one of those who contended that solicitor advocates should be entitled to wear the same wig and gown in court as barristers. Notable cases Egan's work has included acting for: Lotfi Raissi, Algerian pilot who allegedly instructed four of the hijackers who crashed the plane into the Pentagon on September 11. The prosecution case was that Raissi qualified in the United States as a pilot in 1997, attending the same Arizona flight school as four of the hijackers involved in the attacks September 11. Raissi was acquitted after trial. Navinder Singh Sarao, accused of triggering a multibillion-dollar Wall Street crash, who was represented by Egan prior to and during extradition proceedings. Surinder Pal Singh Sappal, who was the only defendant acquitted in a trial relating to insider dealing. Egan and the Special Casework team acted for Sappal on a private basis in one of the rare cases brought by the FCA for insider dealing. The prosecution alleged that the 3 defendants were involved in a plan to make illegal profits from share dealing on secret information obtained by an insider on the board at Logica, a multinational IT and management consultant agency, shortly before the business was the subject of a takeover by CGI Group Holdings Ltd, netting the defendants massive profits. Sappal was acquitted by the jury, with his co-Defendants sentenced.