Simon is a specialist property practitioner. He is described in the Legal 500 as an excellent advocate and one of the best barristers in the property field.

Simon is a specialist property practitioner. He is described in the Legal 500 as an excellent advocate and one of the best barristers in the property field. Simon relishes all forms of advocacy, and has appeared in all levels of court and tribunal including recently appearing twice in the Supreme Court.

He is widely recognised as a specialist in leasehold management, forfeiture and service charge cases, and has appeared in a number of the leading cases in this area.

Simon has been nominated for the Real Estate Junior Barrister of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2024 and Property and Housing Junior Barrister of the Year in the Legal 500 Awards 2024. He was also shortlisted for Barrister of the Year at the Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards 2022.

Simon is frequently instructed across the full range of real property disputes, including landlord and tenant, issues of adverse possession, restrictive covenants, land registration and easements. He regularly advises on a range of issues arising out of development agreements, including joint venture agreements, options and overage, as well as on issues at the intersection of property and insolvency law.

His clients include developers, land owners, financial institutions, leasehold management companies, ground rent investment companies, local authorities, Right to Manage companies, LPA receivers and surveyors.

Simon is favoured by solicitors for his practical common sense commercial advice; he is regularly instructed to represent clients at mediations and other forms of ADR.

Simon is a past Treasurer and Secretary of the Property Bar Association, having served in each role for three years.

In 2021, Simon was appointed as a fee paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), assigned to the Land Registration division.

Before coming to the Bar, Simon worked for ten years providing (through his company) technical, design and production services to clients in the entertainment, film, corporate hospitality and motor industries, both in the UK and abroad. He has considerable commercial experience.

Simon spends his spare time entertaining his children, ideally combining this with his interests in cycling, cars, collecting photography books and working on his house (a thatched former cow shed).

• LLB Hons (University of London, Queen Mary College) – First Class

• Bar Vocational Course (BPP, London) – Outstanding

• Hardwicke Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn) (2004)

Awards

• Buchanan Prize (Lincoln’s Inn) (2005)

• Dechert Company Law Prize (2004)

• Drapers’ Company Prize for academic excellence (2003)

Memberships

• Chancery Bar Association

• Dilapidations Association

• Property Bar Association (Current Treasurer, former Secretary)