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Mr Simon Readhead KC KC
Position
Simon Readhead KC has a wide ranging practice for both claimants and defendants in medico-legal law.
His work includes clinical liability, professional liability and indemnity claims including claims involving industrial accidents and occupational diseases, health and safety claims and product liability.
Simon has a special interest and expertise in catastrophic injury claims including birth trauma, other neurological injuries particularly involving the head and spine and high value and complex quantum claims.
Simon is recognised as a Tier / Band 1 King’s Counsel in the current editions of the leading legal directories in the UK. He is also listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in the UK and was nominated for King’s Counsel of the Year in the Clinical Negligence category of the 2024 Legal 500 Bar awards. Simon is a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple and is the immediate Past President of the Medico-Legal Society in the UK.
Simon is a former Junior of the Midland Circuit and was the founding author of piBlawg, an online clinical liability and personal injury blog. He was also involved in the development of piCalculator which is now the leading online encrypted damages calculation tool. Simon is regularly asked to speak at conferences and seminars both in the UK and abroad, most recently in Hong Kong.
Career
Appointments
- Lecturer in law at the Hammersmith and West London College: 1977-1979
- Legal Adviser to News Corporation Limited: 1978-1986
- Junior of the Midland & Oxford Circuit: 1989-1990
- Member of the General Council of the Bar’s Costs Panel: 1992-1998
- Recorder of the Crown and County Courts: 2000
- Trustee of the Permanent Exhibition of Judicial and Legal Costume, Royal Courts of Justice: 2011
- Trustee of the Rolls Building Art and Educational Trust: 2012
- Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple: 2012
- Head of 1 Chancery Lane Chambers: 2017–2022
- Joint Head of Deka Chambers: 2022
- President of the Medico-Legal Society: 2022-2024
Education
- Lincoln College, University of Oxford (B.A. Jurisprudence 1977; B.C.L. Civil Law 1978; M.A. Jurisprudence 1982)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Simon Readhead KC – Deka Chambers ‘Simon’s preparation and attention to detail are second to none. He is an outstanding advocate and can be relied on to provide a thorough examination and rigorous assessment of all issues.’