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Jessica Simor KC KC
Position
Specialises in public law, EU and human rights. Recent cases: R (on application of Ingenious Media Holdings PLC and another) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2015] EWCA Civ 173; R (on the application of WHISTL UK LTD (formerly TNT Post UK LTD)) (Claimant) v Revenue & Customs Commissioners (Defendant) & Royal Mail Group Ltd (Interested Party) [2014] EWHC 3480 (Admin); BPP University College of Professional Studies Ltd and others v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2014] UKUT 496 (TCC); Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills v PLT Anti-Marketing Ltd [2015] EWCA Civ 76; R (on the application of Letts) v Lord Chancellor; [2015] EWHC 402 (Admin), Delfi v Estonia App. No. 64569/09 (pending); Smith and another v Ministry of Defence (JUSTICE and another intervening).
Career
Called 1992; Middle Temple; former member of A-G- A Panel; lawyer in European Commission of Human Rights (Strasbourg) 1995; legal adviser to the Human Rights Ombudsman Bosnia and Herzgovina (Sarajevo) 1996; former member Monckton Chambers; founder member Matrix Chambers 2000; editor/author ‘Human Rights Practice’ (Sweet & Maxwell); ‘Undertakings: Halsbury’s Laws of the European Communities’ ed Vaughan; ‘Human Rights in Bosna Herzegovina [1997] 6EHRLR 644.
Languages
French.
Memberships
Executive committee, Justice; Bar European Group; former chair of British Institute of Human Rights.
Education
St Paul’s Girls School; St Catherine’s College, Oxford (MA); City University (Dip Law); Kings College, London (postgraduate Dip EC Law); Harmsworth scholar and Inns of Court scholar (Middle Temple).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Tax: VAT and excise
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Jessica Simor KC – Matrix Chambers ‘Clarity of thought and expression, in oral submissions and in writing.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Matrix Chambers is regarded by many as ‘an excellent human rights and public law set‘ with a ‘very bright and talented‘ team. The group continues to handle a high volume of claimant work in the space. Jessica Simor KC is ‘a stand-out silk‘. The ‘excellent‘ Raj Desai is well versed in advising on complex human rights matters. In recent work for the group, Paul Skinner appeared in FL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, a case heard in the Upper Tribunal concerning a disability benefits claimant’s move from legacy benefits to Universal Credit – the tribunal ruled that the failure to provide the claimant with transitional protection for the loss of an enhanced disability premium following the move to Universal Credit was unlawful.
London Bar > European Union relations
A ‘go-to set for any issues relating to EU law’, Matrix Chambers’ members have ‘unparalleled knowledge’ not only in core areas of competition, economic regulation and data protection, but also EU citizens’ rights and trade issues. Jessica Simor KC appeared opposite Aidan O’Neill KC and Nicholas Gibson in the Supreme Court in Jersey Choice v Her Majesty’s Treasury, a damages claim brought by a Jersey horticultural company for the removal of a VAT relief on the basis it constituted a discriminatory charge under EU law. Takis Tridimas has developed a reputation as ‘an excellent EU law practitioner’, who ‘knows the law and relevant intricate practice of the CJEU in perfect detail’.