Simon Jones

Personal injury, Occupational Disease

Simon Jones specialises in high value/large loss employers and public liability claims. In addition he has considerable experience of handling chronic pain cases. He is a member of a number of special interest groups, including transport and retail. In addition Simon is a member of a number of external organisations, including the Manchester Law Society and Manchester and District Medico-Legal Society. Simon manages a team of 30 lawyers in the firm’s Manchester office, and is Head of the Casualty Practice Group at BLM which includes over 200 lawyers.

 Simon has handled two cases which are Court of Appeal authorities. Booth v Britannia Hotels, Court of Appeal 2002, underlined the concept that exaggeration can, in certain circumstances, be implied by reference to a settlement figure as compared to the stated value of a case. The claimant was awarded a fraction of her costs after settling for a vastly reduced sum because of recently disclosed surveillance evidence. The Appeal Court held that the judge conducting the assessment of costs should have considered the matter in the round to determine whether the costs were reasonable having regard to the amount for which the claim properly should have been made. The case of Guntripp v Cheneys Coaches involved restriction of expert evidence in circumstances where there was clear a example expert shopping, in close proximity to trial.

North Staffordshire Polytechnic (LLB Hons Law 2.1); College of Law, Chester.