Appointments

Lecturer in law at the Hammersmith and West London College: 1977-1979 Legal Adviser to News Corporation Limited: 1978-1986 Junior of the Midland & Oxford Circuit: 1989-1990 Member of the General Council of the Bar’s Costs Panel: 1992-1998 Recorder of the Crown and County Courts: 2000 Trustee of the Permanent Exhibition of Judicial and Legal Costume, Royal Courts of Justice: 2011 Trustee of the Rolls Building Art and Educational Trust: 2012 Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple: 2012 Head of 1 Chancery Lane Chambers: 2017–2022 Joint Head of Deka Chambers: 2022 President of the Medico-Legal Society: 2022

Simon Readhead KC has a wide ranging practice for both claimants and defendants in medico-legal law.

Including all aspects of clinical liability, professional liability and indemnity claims particularly involving clinical liability and personal injury, personal injury claims including industrial accidents and occupational diseases, health and safety claims and product liability.

Simon has a special interest and expertise in catastrophic injury claims including birth trauma, other neurological injuries particularly involving the head and spine and high value and complex quantum claims.

Lincoln College, University of Oxford (B.A. Jurisprudence 1977; B.C.L. Civil Law 1978; M.A. Jurisprudence 1982)