Simon Csoka KC

Practice Areas

Recognised in this guide as “at the top of his game and a silk that no other barrister wants to face in court.”

Simon exclusively defends and specialises in all aspects of criminal law, in particular serious fraud, corruption, homicide, terrorism, and complex multi-handed cases. He also brings his expertise to less serious cases for private individuals fearing reputational loss.

He has appeared in most of the long frauds at Southwark over the last few years and this year secured the acquittal of the CEO of a multi-Oscar winning special effects company. He is currently defending the former mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, who is charged with misconduct offences.

He led the challenge to Encrochat evidence on behalf of all the defendants in the main preparatory hearing (Embossed and Estervan) and in the IPT. He quickly masters highly technical scientific and computing evidence.

He has defended many high-profile cases such as Dale Cregan, Arran Coghlan, and Operation Elveden (the News International cases.) He is currently defending Paul Doyle in relation to the Liverpool Premier League parade.

He led for the defence in the first case in which an application for independent special counsel for disclosure was granted. Since then, he has made several successful applications for special counsel which led to the cases collapsing.

He has advised CEOs, such as Julian Wheatland, former Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica.

He also appears in Sport Regulatory work and has appeared before the FA Appeal Committee and internationally at CAS in Lausanne.