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Simon John

020 7583 0811 sjohn@12kbw.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Personal injury, employment.

Position

Personal injury: Simon undertakes work for claimant and defendant in a wide range of PI law. Claimant work is largely undertaken for the leading unions, often on a CFA basis. Defendant work predominantly consists of regular instuction from a number of local authorities, as well as for insurers of large commercial employers. He has extensive experience of employer’s liability cases, including WRULDs, HAVs, and more recently deafness. He deals regularly with defendant highways and occupier’s cases, insurance claims and RTA claims involving allegations of fraud/LVI. He provides relevant CPD seminars. Simon also has experience of the coroner’s courts. Employment: Simon has wide-ranging experience in employment law and regularly represents claimants and respondents. He regularly represents local authorities and police authorities, as well as commercial employers and union-backed claimants and private individuals from worker to director level. He is experienced in all of the prohibited grounds of discrimination case, redundancy, wage claims, unfair dismissal and whistle-blowing claims as well as TUPE cases. He provides accredited CPD seminars on these topics. He also acts as a legal panel advisor as well as legal representative at professional disciplinary/appeal hearings. Cases: X v Gwent Police [2011] legitimate expectation abuse of process arguments in rehearing disciplinary charges; X v Torfaen CBC & anor [2011] extent of delegated control between employer and contractor for purposes of duty under the workplace regs; Q fever SCA litigation [2011] multiple claimant PI actions involving obscure disease and complex causation and quantification arguments; Sarah Knight v Cartrefi Cymru [2010] repuditory conduct by employer, final straw doctrine and waiver by delay and conduct; Ellen Waters v Cardiff County Council [2010] duty of care to staff in dealing with violent residents in care, knowledge, risk aassessments; Jacobs v Rhoserchan [2010] whistleblowing, detriment causation, care standards, repuditory breach; Bazley v Gwent Police [2010] final straw, unilateral remedy of repudiatory breach of trust and confidence; Abdemonium v South Wales Police EAT [2009] race discrimination case involving novel comparator arguments and judgment delay issues; Rowan v the Environment Agency [2008] EAT IRLR 20 appeal case on constructive dismissal, DDA reasonable adjustments and providing guidance on requisite findings for the tribunal; Cornwall Gardens v RO Garrard & others (CA) LTL 19/19/01: Times Junes 19 2001 million-pound dispute as to rights of way and the economic tort of interference with business rights.

Career

Called 1996, Lincoln’s Inn.

Memberships

Employment Lawyers Association.

Leisure

Swimming, art, reading.