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Simon Teasdale
Position
Simon has a specialist costs & litigation funding practice. In addition to being a ‘go to’ junior for Silks in all costs and funding-related litigation, he regularly appears as sole counsel in complex and high-value cases in the High Court and Senior Courts Costs Office.
Examples of recent instructions include:
- Acting (led by Nicholas Bacon KC) for the arbitration firm Volterra Fietta in the important appeal of Diag Human SE & Stava v Volterra Fietta [2023] EWCA Civ 1107, regarding the enforceability of Volterra Fietta’s retainer for work done in relation to a multi-billion-dollar BIT Arbitration, and the availability of severance.
- Acting for Harbour Fund IV LP (led by Roger Mallalieu KC), the commercial funder for the Claimant in the multi-billion-pound Suppipat & Ors v Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Ltd & Ors (one of the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2022) including the defence of an application against Harbour Fund IV for security in respect of the Defendants’ expected costs to trial of more than £67m.
- Acting as sole counsel for more than 50 individual claimants in relation to the assessment of costs incurred in the ongoing MTVIL ‘phone hacking’ litigation against News Group Newspapers Ltd.
In addition to the above, Simon is regularly instructed to advise firms, funders and parties to litigation in relation to the recovery of their costs, retainer issues, applications for security, Solicitor Act assessments, and points of principle in Fixed Cost regimes. Further details of Simon’s work and reported cases can be found on the 4 New Square website.
Memberships
COMBAR, TECBAR, LCIA and PNBA.
Education
BA Jurisprudence, New College, Oxford (First Class); BPTC, City (Outstanding); Hardwicke and Lord Denning Scholarships, Lincoln’s Inn.
Leisure
Food, travel and unreliable cars.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Costs and litigation funding
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Simon Teasdale –4 New Square ‘Simon is an outstanding junior costs counsel and a star of the future. Exceptionally bright and his technical knowledge is superb, born from his infectious enthusiasm for costs. ’
‘Simply the best costs set in the country’, 4 New Square Chambers offers in-depth expertise at every level of call and across all aspects of costs and litigation funding, with particular areas of experience including wasted and non-party costs, funding arrangements, security for costs applications, and non-contentious advisory work. Nicholas Bacon KC, Robert Marven KC, Simon Teasdale and Stephen Innes all acted in Diag Human v Volterra Fietta, with this significant case about whether severance is available to save an otherwise enforceable conditional fee agreement heading from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. In Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust v Luke Hoskin, Benjamin Williams KC, Roger Mallalieu KC and Pippa Manby appeared in a case which now progresses to the Court of Appeal to clarify the principle concerning recoverability of agency fees in personal injury claims. Marven KC also appeared on the opposite side to Mallalieu KC and Teasdale in Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP v Kenig, a Court of Appeal case concerning if a beneficiary to a will can later challenge solicitors’ costs even though they have been agreed and paid by the executor.