The son of Kenneth Richards,
MBE and Winifred Richards, he was educated at
Oundle School and
Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1973; MA 1980). He was called to the bar at
Inner Temple in 1974. He was made a
QC in 1992 and judge of the
High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) in 2003. He was appointed as a chairman of the
Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2014. He was appointed a
Lord Justice of Appeal on 16 November 2015. He retired on reaching the then applicable retirement age of 70 in June 2021. On 17 August 2022, it was announced that Richards had been appointed as a
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Lord Richards was sworn in on 3 October 2022, when it was announced that he would take the judicial title
Lord Richards of Camberwell. ==References==