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Simon Readhead KC has a wide ranging practice for both claimants and defendants 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 both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners legal directories. He has previously been shortlisted for Queen’s Counsel of the Year in the Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury category at the Legal 500 Awards and is also listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom.
Simon was the founding author of piBlawg (an online clinical negligence and personal injury blog). He has also collaborated on piCalculator (a cloud based encrypted damages calculation tool).
Simon’s practice spans clinical liability and related claims, professional liability claims relating to clinical negligence / personal injury, personal injury and related claims and product liability. He is regularly instructed by nationally ranked solicitors’ firms acting for both claimants and defendants and by leading individuals within those firms.
Simon is frequently involved in cases against other top ranked KCs validating his own ranking in the top Tier / Band of the various legal directories.
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