Simon Harding > The 36 Group > London, England > Barrister Profile

Simon Harding

020 7421 8051 sharding@36civil.co.uk View profile

Work Department

36 Commercial
36 Public & Human Rights

Position

Simon believes in giving clear, no nonsense strategic legal advice to companies and individuals alike through solicitors to directly. Simon practices in 3 main areas.

He represents businesses, particularly start ups and small business (but also large organisations and local authorities such as Asda and London local authorities) in 4 key areas:

• Cash flow (helping companies put systems in place to collect their debts, as well as assisting with their contracts to ensure they match their actual workflow; he also has experience in litigating and mediating construction cases;)
• Employment and related systems (in particular advising and managing disciplinaries and sickness absences, both internally and at the employment tribunal and setting up systems to recruit and manage fairly)
• Company asset protection (in particular issues of database theft, intellectual property protection, social media and related issues, creating consumer law complaint website policies, group moves and breaches of restrictive covenants).
• Commercial immigration issues, including Tier 1 entrepreneur and investor visa cases.

He has extensive experience in representing for both employers and employees in the Employment Tribunal and above. He has undertaken extensive work in cases both for and against solicitors and firms of solicitors in both county court and employment trials. Equally, he has represented doctors and teachers before the employment tribunal and before their regulators.

Simon has also extensive experience in all issues of immigration and asylum law, with a particular focus on Article 8 family cases, deportation appeals, administrative review cases, judicial review and commercial immigration.

Career

Called 1998; Middle Temple. Simon worked as a prosecutor for the Environment Agency before starting pupillage at 10-11 Gray’s Inn Square; Thomas More Chambers 2005; 36 Bedford Row 2008.

Languages

Basic French, Spanish, Italian.

Memberships

• Middle Temple
• Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
• Member of ILPA

Education

University of York (1995 History); University of Sussex (1996 conversion course).

Leisure

History, chess, music (classical and popular), visiting Italy.