Simon is a leading silk 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, he is at the forefront of the development of law and civil procedure and is regularly instructed in the Court of Appeal and High Court in cases concerning procedure. He is also qualified as an Arbitrator and Mediator
Call: 1982, Silk: 2011
Appointments:
Barrister Assessor in the High Court (2007 to date) Appointed by the Lord Chancellor to sit as a Barrister Assessor in the High Court on Appeals
Chairman of Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service (2013 to 2018) Appointed to sit as chairman of the barrister disciplinary tribunals
Costs Committee of the Civil Justice Council (2013 to date) Appointed by the Master of the Rolls to sit as a member of the Civil Justice Council
Joint Tribunal of the Bar Council and the Law Society (2013 to date) Appointed by the General Council of the Bar to sit as a barrister representative on the Joint Tribunal