Crown Office Chambers

Simon has over twenty years of experience as one of the leading figures in this field of criminal regulatory law. Along the way, he has represented corporate clients in some of the highest profile health and safety cases that there have ever been brought in this country, including the Buncefield Oil Terminal explosion, the prosecution of Merlin Entertainments, the owners of Alton Towers Theme Park, in relation to the Smiler Rollercoaster accident, the recent criminal prosecution relating to the Hillsborough football stadium disaster of 1989, and the ongoing criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire. 

In 2021, Simon (leading Sandesh Singh from chambers) successfully represented the Managing Director of a wood processing business in one of the largest safety-related manslaughter trials undertaken in this country, over a 3-month period at Chester Town Hall Nightingale Court before Mrs Justice May and a jury. The case related to the explosion of Bosley Wood Mill in 2015 in which four workers died and many others were injured or lost their livelihoods. Simon secured the acquittal of the MD in relation to 4 counts of manslaughter, through a series of legal submissions which were accepted by the trial judge and then upheld by the Court of Appeal.

Called to the Bar: October 1995

QC: 2018

Sheffield University, Law (LLB First Class).