Simon Readhead KC

Practice Areas

Simon Readhead KC has a wide-ranging practice in medico-legal law including all aspects of clinical liability, professional liability and indemnity claims particularly involving clinical liability and personal injury, personal injury claims including industrial accidents and occupational diseases, health and safety claims and product liability.

Simon has a special interest and expertise in catastrophic injury claims including birth trauma, other neurological injuries particularly involving the head and spine and high value and complex quantum claims.

Simon is recognised as a Tier / Band 1 King’s Counsel in the current editions of the leading legal directories in the UK. He is also listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in the UK. Simon is a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple and the joint Head of Chambers at Deka Chambers in London. He is the current President of the Medico-Legal Society.

Career

Simon is former Junior of the Midland Circuit and was the founding author of piBlawg, an online clinical liability and personal injury blog. He was also involved in the development of piCalculator which is now the leading online encrypted damages calculation tool. Simon is regularly asked to speak at conferences and seminars both in the UK and abroad, most recently in Hong Kong.

Simon is a trustee and member of the management committee of both the Permanent Exhibition of Judicial and Legal Costume in the Royal Courts of Justice and the Arts and Education Trust at the Rolls Building.