Simon Readhead KC

Practice Areas

Simon Readhead KC has a wide-ranging practice in medico-legal law. His work includes clinical liability, professional liability and indemnity claims including claims involving industrial accidents and occupational diseases, health and safety and product liability.

Simon has a special interest and expertise in catastrophic injury claims - including birth trauma and other neurological injuries 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 UK editions of the leading legal directories. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in the UK and was nominated for King's Counsel of the Year, Clinical Negligence for the 2024 Legal 500 Bar awards. Simon is the joint Head of Deka Chambers and was President of the Medico-Legal Society in the UK 2022-2024.

Career

Simon is a former Junior of the Midland Circuit and was the founding author of piBlawg, an online clinical liability and personal injury blog. He was 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.

Simon is authorised to sit as a deputy judge in the civil, criminal and family courts. He is also a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple and a trustee and member of the management committees of both the Permanent Exhibition of Judicial and Legal Costume, Royal Courts of Justice and the Arts and Education Trust, Rolls Building.