Simon is presently instructed in a range of serious complex
criminal and civil cases
He has also appeared in the following reported or otherwise significant cases:
Cameron, Re Application for Judicial Review (No.2) [2023] NIKB 64 (17 May 2023)
JR216 & Ors, Re Application for Judicial Review [2022] NIKB 28 (29 November 2022)
A & Ors, v R [2021] EWCA Crim 128 (05 February 2021)
R v (on the application of A and others) Chief Constable of West Midlands Police and Central Criminal Court [2017] [WLR(D) 339] (application to quash search warrants obtained against a barrister and solicitors during a conspiracy to murder investigation)
R (on the application of BSkyB) v Central Criminal Court [2014] UKSC 17 (represented SAS officer as an interested party in an appeal relating to a secret hearing to obtain production order, later held to be unlawful)
R v Nightingale [2012] EWCA Crim 2734 (SAS soldier’s conviction quashed following improper judicial pressure to plead guilty)
R (on the application of Bamber) v CCRC [2012] EWHC 3768 (Admin) (application for permission to judicially review Criminal Cases Review Commission following refusal to refer application back to Court of Appeal in respect of multiple murder convictions)
R v C [2011] EWCA Crim 1845 (represented a special forces’ support group NCO in Court Martial Appeal case reversing judge advocate’s decisions on what constituted a PACE interview and admission of hearsay evidence; he was later cleared)
Corporate Officer of the House of Commons v Information Commissioner [2008] EWHC 1084 (Admin); [2009] 3 All E.R. 403; [2008] A.C.D. 71; (2008) 105(23) L.S.G. 24; (2008) 158 N.L.J. 751; Times, May 22, 2008 (MP’s expenses)
R (on the application of the Ministry of Defence) v Wiltshire and Swindon Coroner, Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court), 19 April 2005, [2005] EWHC 889 (Admin); [2006] 1 W.L.R. 134; [2005] 4 All E.R. 40; [2005] Inquest L.R. 48; Times, May 5, 2005 (renewed inquest into the death of a serviceman in 1953 at Porton Down, the MOD’s human experimentation facility)
R v Clegg (1995) 1 All ER 334 (paratrooper accused of murder whilst on duty in Northern Ireland)
