Simon Jackson KC

As a Junior and in silk, Simon Jackson has regularly undertaken police disciplinary cases defending officers [across four police forces] charged with a variety of offences, including dishonesty, sexual harassment, misfeasance in a public office and ‘test purchasing’ sexual services as part of a police undercover vice operation.

He has also regularly represented police officers, often custody officers [sergeants or inspectors] in connection with ‘death in custody’ Inquests. He has represented a police firearms team in West Yorkshire in relation to the death of a western ‘quick draw’ fan who confronted the police with a firearm in Huddersfield. He was also in involved in the inquest concerning Christopher Alder who died in custody in Hull and the related judicial review proceedings.

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

Simon is a full member of the GMC’s Approved Panel of Counsel presenting Fitness to Practise cases involving serious misconduct, deficient professional performance allegations before Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service Tribunals Fitness to Practice Panels and Review Hearings.

Notable Cases

• Dr D v General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 3379 (Admin)
  

  Case involving conduct of a UK based multi-centre industry sponsored medical research clinical trial.

• Dr AM v General Medical Council [2015] (Admin) Wilkie J. 19.06.2015
  
• GMC v Dr P [2012]
  

  Case involving the London ‘G20’ riots forensic pathologist who was struck off the Medical Register
 for misconduct by a Fitness to Practise Panel arising out his conduct of the Ian Tomlinson post mortem in April 2009. Pathologist had erroneously concluded that the cause of death was ‘natural causes’, when he had in fact been assaulted by a police officer.

The Health and Safety work has involved representing both individuals and corporate clients.

Relevant Experience

• Recently acted for a builder and care home proprietor 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 more recent management failures of inspection re: the defects This was a local authority prosecution, and complex ‘basis of plea’ issues and sentence hearing immediately pre-commencement of the new Sentencing Guidelines. [R v DG (1.12. 2015) Crown Court at Leicester] Achieved a substantial reduction in Local Authority’s costs on summary taxation.
• Recently instructed for an employer where the issue was the alleged overexposure of employees to dust when working in a lime kiln, involving complicated expert evidence re WEL exposure rates and mitigating/compliance measures.

Notable Cases

• 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
 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]
  

  Crown Court trial at Teesside.