Simon Teasdale

Practice Areas

Simon Teasdale has a specialist practice focussed on costs and litigation funding in all forms of court and arbitral proceedings.

Simon is regularly involved in the most high-profile costs claims and appeals in the English courts. In addition to being a ‘go to’ junior for Silks in all costs and funding-related litigation, he regularly appears as sole counsel in the High Court and Senior Courts Costs Office.

In the past year, Simon has appeared in three of the most significant costs cases to reach the Court of Appeal:

1. Acting (led by Roger Mallalieu KC) for the successful respondent in Signature Litigation LLP v Ivanishvili [2024] EWCA Civ 901, which is now the leading authority on the requirements of a statute bill and the ability to deliver same in cases conducted under a conditional fee agreement.

2. Acting (led by Roger Mallalieu KC) for the successful respondent in Thomson Snell & Passmore v Kenig [2024] EWCA Civ 15, which has revolutionised the rights of assessment available to beneficiaries under trusts and wills.

3. Acting (led by Nicholas Bacon KC) for the boutique arbitration firm Volterra Fietta in the important appeal of Diag Human SE & Stava v Volterra Fietta [2023] EWCA Civ 1107, regarding the enforceability of Volterra Fietta’s retainer for work done in relation to a multi-billion-dollar BIT Arbitration.

Simon is also acting in a number of the most high-profile group actions currently ongoing (including the ‘Dieselgate’ NOx Emissions litigation, ‘Phone hacking’ claims against NGN, shareholder claims against Glencore and civil claims arising out of the Grenfell Tower Fire in 2017).

Further details of Simon’s work and reported cases can be found on the 4 New Square website.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, TECBAR, LCIA and PNBA.

Personal

Food, travel and unreliable cars.