Park Square Barristers Ltd.

Civil Fraud, Regulatory & Public, Criminal and Personal Injury

Civil Fraud

Simon specialises in representing insurance companies in claims where fraud is suspected or explicitly alleged. He also undertakes contempt proceedings on behalf of insurance companies when cases are of such gravity that a prison sentence should follow.

His multi-track fraud work includes road traffic claims, employer liability, travel sickness and occupier liability. Simon regularly acts in high-value credit high litigation and also in complex fraud-ring cases. Simon’s caseload also includes operations in which hire companies and claims management companies are added to proceedings.

Regulatory & Public
Simon is specialist Regulatory Advocate (B List)

Simon prosecutes and defends in serious cases brought by Fire & Rescue Authorities, the Environment Agency, Health & Safety Executive and local authorities. He often provides pre-charge advice in relation to complex and large-scale operations which lead to proceedings in the Magistrates, Crown and High Court

Since 2012 he has been a panelist advocate for both the EA and HSE. Simon has experience of private prosecutions and is often instructed to advise upon the merits of potential prosecutions at an early stage.

Simon also undertakes inquest work, and his cases have included:

• Driver in police pursuit killed in multi-vehicle RTA
• Death of dockworker due to health & safety failures of employer
• Teenager misdiagnosed by GP.

Crime
Simon is a very popular and busy junior practitioner who is regularly instructed in cases of serious and complex fraud as well as murder and violence. He is a Grade-4 prosecutor and is regularly instructed by a number of prosecuting authorities, such as the CPS (including the Department of Rural, Health and Welfare), HMRC, Central Fraud Group North, the Health & Safety Executive, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and the Environment Agency. Simon also specialises in confiscation proceedings and is instructed by the Proceeds of Crime Unit.

Personal Injury
Simon is a popular and busy practitioner who is regularly instructed in high value and complex cases. His role on the Attorney General’s list of advocates has seen Simon undertake further employer and occupier liability work as well as non-freezing cold injuries. He also undertakes cases based purely on arguments about costs. He regularly provides training to insurers and law firms on a range of PI and related topics.

Call 2005

Appointments: 2008 Trainer of Expert Police Witnesses (drugs & counter-terrorism)

2009 Attorney General's List of Approved Counsel

2012 CPS Advocate Panel Environment Agency Advocate Panel Health & Safety Executive Advocate Panel

2013 Advocacy Trainer for the North Eastern Circuit CPS Advocate Confiscation Panel

2014 Assistant Junior of the North Eastern Circuit

2015 Grade-3 prosecutor

2018 Grade 4 Prosecutor Attorney General's Regional Panel - B Panel

2019 List B of the Panel of Specialist Regulatory Advocates Judicial appointment to the First-Tier Tribunal - Immigration & Asylum Chamber

2020 Deputy District Judge of the North Eastern Circuit

North Eastern Circuit Criminal Bar Association Personal Injury Bar Association

2003 University of Leeds, LLB

2005 Nottingham Law School, BVC