Call: 2024
Education:
Practice Areas: Civil – Family – Immigration
Simon is one of a few barristers to have been awarded the full complement of scholarships from Gray’s Inn, including one of four of the Inn’s most prestigious senior scholarships awarded each year to pupil barristers for excellence in advocacy.
Since being called to the Bar in October 2024, Simon’s development has been rapid. Simon was instructed to appear in fast track trials from the end of his first month on his feet and successfully drafted a complex set of particulars on a property dispute, encompassing multiple heads of claim in his early months of practice.
To date, Simon has gained extensive experience in the following areas:
A wide range of Property matters across all levels, including:
- Landlord and Tenant (both public and private sector)
- Closure Orders
- Boundary disputes
- Nuisance
- Trespass
RTA and PI hearings across all levels
Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions and breach
Contempt of Court proceedings and committal
Contractual disputes
Contested Wills and Contentious probate
Post-call, Simon spent six months as a Judicial Assistant in the Court of Appeal assigned to Warby LJ, during which time he worked on a number of high profile appeals including Tickle & Ors v The BBC & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 42 andIqbal v Geo TV Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 1566.
Prior to his call, Simon worked as both a journalist and university lecturer, spending six years of that career in Guangzhou, China. Simon has also served as an infantry reservist with the 4th Yorkshire Regiment.
These experiences have shaped Simon into an engaging and capable advocate, who is multilingual (fluent in Mandarin Chinese) and able to work with people from all backgrounds.
