Simon is a recognised authority on dispute resolution within the industry and has prepared and conducted many cases at senior level for over 20 years, both in the Technology and Construction Court (including numerous major reported decisions) and before international arbitration tribunals. He has acted in well over 120 adjudications over the last 11 years, 8 of which have been reported at enforcement stage. Simon is an accredited adjudicator with the TeCSA, RICS and CIC panels.

• dispute avoidance and management advice to major corporations on construction projects;
• money and overrun cases;
• failed reservoirs, lakes and dams disputes;
• disputes over ill-procured and managed major hotels;
• disputes concerning bioethanol plants;
• disputes over the termination of EPC contracts and termination cases more generally;
• disputes over EVOH plants;
• disputes over contiguous piling failure;
• pipeline contract disputes;
• gas treatment plant disputes;
• disputes over functional performance attenuation and holding tanks;
• tender dispute cases;
• disputes over bonds and collateral securities on construction works;
• delay, disruption and prolongation disputes;
• disputes over health farm business projects;
• failed lay-in-grid ceilings;
• collapse cases;
• injunctive business in construction cases;
• fatal accidents on construction sites;
• waste to energy plant disputes;
• high voltage apparatus disputes in data centres;
• PFI disputes over SPV management in the health care arena;
• disputes over construction of schools using modern methods of construction;
• disputes involving misrepresentation and negligent misstatement;
• materials disputes and cases concerning a wide variety of building and design defects.

Simon is immediate past chairman of the Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association, a role he held for five years. In that time he championed the TeCSA eDisclosure Protocol and its first revision in January 2015.

In 2015 Simon also led TeCSA’s research and thorough review of the Construction and Engineering Pre-Action Protocol (PAP) and the views of those using PAP including solicitors, consultants, contractors, employers and specialist sub-contractors, and working with the services of Acuigen investigated the ways in which PAP was and was not working, and produced recommendations for its amendment. It was the first time the views of those using PAP and the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) had been subject to a detailed independent survey. It resulted in TeCSA and TECBAR drafting a revised version of the PAP (in which Simon was heavily involved) reflecting the study outputs which is due to be added to the White Book in late 2016.

Simon is also involved with the training and policy of construction solicitors and TeCSA adjudicators. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London on their MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution. He has lectured and chaired extensively for most of the major conference symposia as well as at many other universities, the RICS, Arbrix, SCL, ICES and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and legal education networks. He has also chaired and taken part in numerous webinars on construction law issues for two publishing houses. Simon wrote the contract module for King’s College’s Construction Law, Litigation and Regulation distance learning course.

He co-authored Avoiding Contractors’ Claims with Mark Hackett, then partner in Davis Langdon & Everest.

He has an occasional column in Building magazine and has contributed to numerous other legal and construction journals. He is also a past member of the editorial board for the CLT journal, The Engineering and Construction Law Journal. Between 1998 and 1999, Simon was also on the Faculty Training Board of the CIOB training adjudicators.

• immediate past chairman of the Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association (2010–2015) and current committee member;
• member of the Society of Construction Arbitrators;
• founder Associate Member of the Planning Engineers Organisation;
• member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation;
• fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 1995;
• fellow of the Forum for the Built Environment which in 1995 awarded him the Gordon Tomalin prize;
• member of LCIA;
• liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators;
• CEDR trained mediator;
• TeCSA Accredited Adjudicator.

Simon’s interests outside the law are buildings (restoring them), building structures and materials, power generation and architecture; he is a self-confessed petrolhead, loves travel, motorcycles, off-roading, and his family.