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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.
Including all aspects of clinical liability, professional liability and indemnity claims particularly involving clinical liability and personal injury, personal injury claims including 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.
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
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 is very collaborative and his attention to detail is second-to-none. He is extremely diligent and thorough.’
Launched in October 2022 by the merger of 9 Gough Chambers and 1 Chancery Lane, Deka Chambers ‘has huge strength-in-depth from its silks to its juniors’ – bringing together the claimant and defendant-side strengths of both sets. Edward Bishop KC has notable experience in birth injury claims – he acted for the defendant in ZXB v UCL Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a maximum severity birth injury claim involving issues of breach of duty, causation and material contribution. Laura Johnson KC has involvement in the case of Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, representing the claimants whose father died following negligent failure to identify his heart problems – the cases touching on issues of case law, dating back to the wake of the Hillsborough disaster, on psychiatric injuries caused by witnessing injuries caused by negligence. Simon Readhead KC specialises in claims involving catastrophic neurological injuries, and turning to the set’s juniors Laura Begley is a nother notable name, with experience in claims from negligent spinal surgery to injuries in vulnerable clients with pre-existing issues.