
Simon is presently instructed in a range of serious criminal and civil cases
Recent examples of his work include
R v A (appeal against sentence where defendant subsequently provided intelligence to police about serious offending)
M and four others v UK (application to European Court of Human Rights on Article 2 grounds: failure of duty to investigate multiple murders)
B v Trinity Mirror (image of wrong person published alongside article related to convicted drug-dealer; affected person successfully recovered damages for defamation)
R (on the application of R) v A Local Authority (permission for judicial review granted on issue of access to a court)
Re: X (advising on scope of serious criminal investigation arising out of use of
R v NN (led by former senior treasury counsel, Orlando Pownall QC in
R v H (appeal against conviction based on violations of
R v P (appeal against conviction based on failure to authorise informant as a CHIS)
B v National Sports Regulatory Body (advised on allegations of impropriety and threat of
Re A Child (resisted application by
National Sports Regulatory Body v R (prosecuted a senior sports coach for allegations of sexual misconduct in relation to minors)
R (on
A local authority v A (instructed by a local authority to resist a defence application to exclude covert surveillance evidence and stay proceedings in a significant trading standards prosecution)
R (on the application of T) v Judge Advocate General (judicial review of
Re: A (deceased) (inquest proceedings during which Simon successfully resisted an attempt by an insurer to allow a verdict of suicide to be left to the jury)
WYP v A and others (successfully resisted applications for Sexual Harm Protection Orders against a number of suspects under investigation for child sexual exploitation, including obtaining a rare defence costs order)
He has also appeared in the following reported or otherwise significant cases:
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
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
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 Mark
R v Clegg (1995) 1 All ER 334 (paratrooper accused of murder whilst on duty in Northern Ireland)
