Year of Call: 1982 / Year of Silk: 2003
Practice Areas
Professional Discipline
Appearing before Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service Fitness to Practice Hearings, and in the High Court in connection with S40 Appeals, instructed on behalf of the General Medical Council
Recently involved in professional disciplinary proceedings involving alleged doping involving a national/international cycling team doctor, and currently engaged in fitness to practice proceedings concerning the prescribing of ‘puberty blockers’ and ‘gender affirming hormones’ to young adolescent trans patients, by a general practitioner. [See details below]
Inquests
Simon Jackson has also been involved in a number of high profile inquests, involving deaths in hospitals and police stations, (one of which was the longest running single death inquest). This inquest resulted in Administrative Review Proceedings, and consequent manslaughter charges being brought against some of the police officers involved in the alleged unlawful killing of the deceased.
He has acted for a client operating privately run detention facility where a detainee died [of natural causes] whilst in custody and for a local authority where a teenage youth committed suicide after an initial assessment by social services.
Regulatory & Crime
Both as a junior and in ‘silk’ Simon Jackson has been instructed in serious regulatory and criminal cases
Background Material re: Other Regulatory Work
Simon Jackson QC: ‘Strongly recommended in Health & Safety/Regulatory’
Legal 500 2011-2012”
The Health and Safety work has involved representing both individuals and corporate clients.
Recorder General Crime 2005 [Civil Recorded in 2006 and Class 2 Crime in 2014]
University of Leeds LLB (Hons)
HSLA/ARDL
Undertakes Public Access work
(Case involving conduct of a UK based multi-centre industry sponsored medical device clinical trial]
Defending a Local Authority prosecution under s3(1) Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, relating to a fatality in a residential care home, where issues of defective design and inspection arose.]
(Deceased a detainee in a detention centre.)
Prosecution of London ‘G20’ Pathologist. Dr P was struck off the Medical Register for misconduct and deficient professional performance by a Fitness to Practise Panel arising out his conduct of the Ian Tomlinson post mortem in April 2009.
Corporate Manslaughter prosecution under the new CMCHA 2007. The Company pleaded guilty at the close of the Prosecution case and it was fined £480,000 and ordered to pay substantial costs, in respect of fatal accident at factory premises where an employee fell through a roof light on a fragile roof.
(Re: the definition of an ’employer’ re: ‘migrant workers’, under s53 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974)
(Death in Custody re: Christopher Alder: Admin Review)
19th June 2017
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19th June 2017