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Simon Howarth KC

020 7643 5000 simon.howarthkc@hailshamchambers.com

Position

Simon concentrates on professional negligence. His work principally involves lawyers, accountants, and financial advisers, and related professional indemnity insurance disputes. He also has experience with commercial cases, and TCC claims with a professional negligence aspect, as well as TCC actions arising out of fire, flood and the like. He is admitted to practise in the Republic of Ireland and the International Finance Centre in Dubai.

Simon is a PNBA accredited adjudicator and accepts appointments in all of his areas of professional negligence practice.

Simon was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1991. He was a pupil at 2 Crown Office Row, which later became part of Crown Office Chambers. He then became a tenant at those Chambers until moving to Hailsham in 2011. In his early years at the Bar, Simon’s practice was broad based, helping him gain important “on his feet” experience before all types of tribunal.

Simon is shortlisted as Professional Negligence Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2020

Career

Called 1991.

Education

Grays Inn Mould Scholar and Advocacy Prize; Magdalen College Oxford.