Park Square Barristers

Civil Fraud, Regulatory & Public, Criminal and Personal Injury

Regulatory & Public

Ranked Tier 1 for Business and Regulatory Crime (including Health & Safety) – The Legal 500 (2025)

Ranked Band 2 for Environment – Chambers and Partners (2025) – 6 years ranked

Simon Clegg 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.

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

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

Crime

Ranked a Tier 1 Junior by the Legal 500 (2021) and a Band 2 Junior by Chambers & Partners (2021)

Simon Clegg 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.

Casualty fraud

Ranked a Tier 1 Junior by the Legal 500 (2024) and a Band 2 Junior by Chambers & Partners (2021)

Simon specialises in representing insurers in claims where fraud is suspected or explicitly alleged. He also undertakes contempt proceedings on behalf of insurers 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.

Personal injury & clinical negligence

Simon Clegg 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. 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. Simon also undertakes inquest work.

Lectures and Seminars 

• Credit hire and taxi firms
• The enforceability of credit-hire agreements
• Chen Wei & Veolia - what it all means for the future of credit hire
• Road Traffic Act and Article 75
• Part 14 Admissions and recent developments
• Credit hire overview - Bent & Pattni update
• Indemnity, Declarations & Article 75
• Part 20 update
• Part 36 withdrawals - rules and case law
• Appeals, procedure and Ladd v Marshall

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

2025

List A of the Panel of Specialist Regulatory Advocates

North Eastern Circuit Criminal Bar Association Personal Injury Bar Association

2003 University of Leeds, LLB

2005 Nottingham Law School, BVC