- Tel:
- Work 020 3137 4800
- Fax:
- Fax 020 3137 4821
- DX:
- 35713 BLOOMSBURY
- Web:
- www.eastwoodslaw.co.uk
- Email:
Simon Eastwood
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 3137 4800
- Email:
Work Department
Healthcare/sport.
Position
Senior partner, acting mainly for medical defence organisations. Practice includes public inquiries, disciplinary matters before regulatory bodies, inquests, criminal defence and civil defence, and sporting litigation (on behalf of insurers), with a number of reported cases outlined on the firm’s website.
Career
Trained in Melbourne, Australia; qualified 1980; solicitor in Melbourne 1980-83; Trefor James, Enfield, London 1984-86; Freehill Hollingdale & Page, Melbourne 1986-88; Hempsons, London 1988-95, partner 1995; Nabarro Nathanson, London 1996-97; partner healthcare department Winckworth Sherwood 1997-2004; founded Eastwoods Solicitors 2004.
Member
Royal Society of Medicine; Melbourne Cricket Club; National Sporting Club.
Education
Haileybury College, Melbourne; University of Melbourne (LLB Hons; LLM). Kings College, London (Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Law).
Leisure
Sport.
Practice Areas
Clinical negligence - defendant; Professional disciplinary and regulatory law (including police law); Sport
