Simon Browne

Simon is an experienced counsel, be it in the fields of commercial costs and litigation funding, catastrophic brain and spinal injury, and related areas of sports law, clinical negligence, insurance, and professional negligence and professional regulation.

In addition to dealing with costs in commercial litigation and advising on litigation funding, Simon has a formidable reputation regarding costs in Group Litigation, be it for the claimant group or defendants. He has advised and conducted advocacy in the Civil Phone Hacking litigation concerning News of the World and the Mirror Group, the Construction Industry Vetting Litigation, The Truck Cartel Claims in the Competition Tribunal, the Sub-Postmaster claims against the Post Office, the Iraqi Civilian Claims against the MoD, the Grenfell Inquiry, and the Hillsborough Misfeasance Claims.

Simon also has extensive experience of catastrophic injury and clinical negligence claims. In 2020 he was shortlisted for personal injury / clinical negligence barrister of the year. He is much sought after by both Claimants and Defendants which is due to his expertise in brain and spinal injury claims. He has been instructed in a number of high-profile cases for both claimants and insurance clients regarding both domestic and international incidents, each often valued in excess of £10 million.

He is a qualified arbitrator and mediator.