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Simon Antrobus KC
Position
Simon has over twenty years of experience as one of the leading figures in this field of criminal regulatory law. Along the way, he has represented corporate clients in some of the highest profile health and safety cases that there have ever been brought in this country, including the Buncefield Oil Terminal explosion, the prosecution of Merlin Entertainments, the owners of Alton Towers Theme Park, in relation to the Smiler Rollercoaster accident, the recent criminal prosecution relating to the Hillsborough football stadium disaster of 1989, and the ongoing criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire.
In 2021, Simon (leading Sandesh Singh from chambers) successfully represented the Managing Director of a wood processing business in one of the largest safety-related manslaughter trials undertaken in this country, over a 3-month period at Chester Town Hall Nightingale Court before Mrs Justice May and a jury. The case related to the explosion of Bosley Wood Mill in 2015 in which four workers died and many others were injured or lost their livelihoods. Simon secured the acquittal of the MD in relation to 4 counts of manslaughter, through a series of legal submissions which were accepted by the trial judge and then upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Career
Called to the Bar: October 1995
QC: 2018
Education
Sheffield University, Law (LLB First Class).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Health and safety
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Simon Antrobus KC –Crown Office Chambers ‘Simon advocates on his clients’ behalf with grace and panache. His statements are concise and precise, often encapsulating complex points and principles in both judge and jury-friendly terms and aided by his crystal-clear delivery.‘
Sought out by high-profile individual directors and managers, through to multi-billion pound corporations, the set at Crown Office Chambers continues to be a pre-eminent set for a whole array of high profile health and safety matters, including corporate and individual manslaughter, prosecutions under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and appeals against improvement and prohibitions notices. John Cooper KC, James Ageros KC, and Lucy Wright, who joined the set from Lincoln House Chambers in November 2022, were all instructed in a trial relating to a Section 3 and Section 37 Health and Safety at Work Act case concerning five fatalities at a recycling centre in Birmingham. Simon Antrobus KC recently successfully defended a managing director in relation to four charges of manslaughter, and Mark Balysz KC is defending a paramedic at trial charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Simon Antrobus KC – Crown Office Chambers ‘Simon is meticulous in his preparation and his advocacy is firm, persuasive and impressive.‘
At Crown Office Chambers, Simon Antrobus KC is continuing to represent ITV in the inquest into the suicide of a Jeremy Kyle show participant. Turning to the set’s juniors, Mike Atkins is representing Sodexo, the provider of security to a hospital, in the inquest into the death of a man who was hit by a car after being refused admission by the practitioners at the hospital. Sandesh Singh recent workload includes representing Look Ahead in the inquest into the death of a man who was restrained by security guards after following a woman into the ExCeL Centre.