He was educated at Bryanston School and read Classics at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Richard Rampton was called to the Bar in November 1965 (Inner Temple) and was appointed a QC (Queen's Counsel) in 1987.
Rampton also represented McDonald's in the McLibel case, where the company sued two members of the London Greenpeace environmental campaigning group.
[2] Rampton's earlier cases include Andrew Neil (editor of The Sunday Times) vs Peregrine Worsthorne, Lord Aldington vs Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Gillian Taylforth vs News of the World.
He also successfully represented politician George Galloway against The Daily Telegraph over allegations that he took £375,000 from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.