Simon Jackson QC

Year of Call: 1982 / Year of Silk: 2003

Practice Areas

Simon Jackson QC

Year of Call: 1982 / Year of Silk: 2003

Practice Areas

Experience

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.

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.

Directories

‘strongly recommended in Health & Safety/Regulatory’ (Legal 500 2011-2012)
‘has particular expertise in medically complex cases’ (Legal 500: 2010-2011)
‘is outstanding in HSE cases and is noted for instructions of technical complexity’: (Legal 500 2008-2009)
‘is extremely effective in cases with a complex technical element’ (Legal 500 [Crime]: 2007-2008)
‘is extremely effective in medical defence’ (Legal 500: 2005)

Appointments

Recorder General Crime 2005 [Civil Recorded in 2006 and Class 2 Crime in 2014]

Education

University of Leeds LLB (Hons)

Professional Memberships

HSLA/ARDL

Public Access

Undertakes Public Access work

Johnson-Ogbuneke v General Medical Council [2016] 1471 (Admin)

Dowson v General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 3379 (Admin)

(Case involving conduct of a UK based multi-centre industry sponsored medical device clinical trial]

R v Dinesh Gokani [2015]

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.]

Beddi v General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 2213 (Admin)

Makki v General Medical Council [2014] EWHC 769 (Admin)

Re: TM [Death in Custody Inquest: 2015]

(Deceased a detainee in a detention centre.)

Re: SB [Overseas Adventure Activity Inquest: 2014]

GMC v Dr. P [August 2012]

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.

R v Lion Steel Equipment Limited [July 2012]

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.

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 Hull Coroner for East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull, (ex parte Dawson & Others) [2001] EWHC 352 (Admin) & ACD 365

(Death in Custody re: Christopher Alder: Admin Review)

Archbold News, (Re: Admissibility of Expert Evidence)

19th June 2017

New Law Journal

19th June 2017

Solicitors Journal (Disclosure in Coroners’ Court)

19th June 2017