Selborne Chambers

Simon’s practice covers all areas of Commercial Chancery litigation and arbitration.

Simon regularly appears as an advocate in the High Court (Business & Property Courts) and in arbitration. He has particular expertise in disputes involving the consideration of valuation, accounting and other technical expert evidence.

From 2017 to 2022, Simon was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown and was frequently instructed to advise and represent government departments and agencies, including HMRC, the Insolvency Service, the Official Receiver, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Secretary of State of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport, The Royal Parks and Highways England. He was also regularly instructed to act on behalf of the Director for Legal Aid Casework, resisting judicial review claims in the Administrative Court. In addition, between 2011 and 2018, Simon was instructed by the Secretary of State for Health as junior counsel in relation to the dispute over the NHS Connecting for Health project, at that time the largest installation of a civilian IT system in the world.

Simon also accepts instructions to act as an arbitrator and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

Called in 2009, Lincoln’s Inn (Hardwicke, Lord Bowen, Lord Denning and Shelford scholarships). Between 2017 and 2022 Simon was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. He was frequently instructed by HMRC, the Insolvency Service, Highways England, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Secretary of State for Health in connection with a wide range of commercial, IT, company, insolvency and property matters. Simon is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Chancery Bar Association, Property Bar Association, Commercial Bar Association and the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Robinson College, Cambridge (BA Hons (Double First), MA (Cantab)), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MPhil (Distinction)), City University (Dip Law (Distinction)), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Dip Int Arb).