Professional Discipline
Appearing before Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service Hearings and in the High Court in connection with S40 and Admin Review Appeals.

Simon Jackson has experience of dealing with cases that have been the subject of complex Professional Standards and IPCC investigations.

He has considerable experience dealing with cases involving complex medical, pathological, scientific and technical evidence.

He is also familiar and comfortable with working in teams, from the early stages of a case, and providing leadership where required.

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.

• Recently acted for a self-builder/care home proprietor in criminal proceedings in relation to a fatal fall involving a vulnerable elderly resident, whose fall arose from alleged historic structural defects in terms of the design and construction of the home’s wooden staircase, and the more recent management failures of inspection re: the historic defects. All this against the background of allegations of cost cutting by the contractor, when the design specification was agreed.
• Co-Presented with Mr Justice Mark Turner the Capita Symonds Annual H&S Lecture in London in May 2013.
• R v Lion Steel Equipment Limited & Others [2012] Simon Jackson was instructed in the trial of what was the only the third corporate manslaughter prosecution (under the 2007 Act) and allied gross negligence manslaughter prosecution, involving an industrial (roofing) accident.
• R v Shah Nawaz Pola [2009] EWCA Crim
 655 [Re: the definition of an ‘employer’ re: ‘migrant workers’, under s53 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974).
• R v HTM [Hatton Traffic Management] & Colas [2008] Trial at Teesside Crown Court.

Inquests
Simon Jackson has also been involved in a number of high profile inquests, involving deaths in hospitals and police stations, (one of which lasted eight weeks, and 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.

Most recently 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.

Since taking Silk, Simon Jackson has been involved two further corporate manslaughter cases, one a trial involved the operation of an indoor motocross track. This case raised issues for the responsible NGB, and for the HSE, as to how ‘risk based activities’ are to be properly risk assessed and controlled in the future. He has been involved in a corporate manslaughter (under the 2007 Act) and allied gross negligence manslaughter case involving an industrial (roofing) accident.

Simon Jackson has also acted as ‘Legal Assessor’ to one of Her Majesty’s Coroners in connection with a two weeks inquest involving an infant death in hospital, where the alleged over administration of drugs was a possible cause of death, and where the issue of ‘gross negligence manslaughter’ had been raised by a reporting consultant. He has also acted as Counsel to the Inquiry in a lengthy ‘Article 2’ ‘death in custody’ Inquest in South Wales. He has a particular interest in the issue of disclosure of un-used material in connection with ‘Article 2’ inquisitions and has written articles and presented a seminar on this topic.