Simon Ross

Personal Injury

Simon is an experienced personal injury practitioner. He is dual-qualified and practised as a solicitor for a number of years prior to transferring across to the Bar in 2004.

Simon was appointed as a Deputy District Judge in 2010 and has recently been appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown by the Attorney General (Regional Panel A). He is recognised as a leading individual in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for his personal injury practice.

His work encompasses all aspects of the case whether drafting, advisory work and/or representation at trial or JSM.

He is regularly instructed as sole counsel in cases pleaded up to £1million.

Simon has an extremely busy practice that encompasses all areas of personal injury work including road traffic accidents, employers’ liability claims, occupational illness, fatal accidents and clinical negligence. He also in experienced in professional negligence cases where the underlying claim was a personal injury matter; these types of cases were within his areas of specialism when he practised as a solicitor.

Simon is skilled in dealing with complex procedural issues and he is often instructed to advise and/or represent parties on appeals where there are tricky questions of procedure or costs.

LLB (Hons) Post Grad Dip Law (ICSL)