Simon specialises in employment, discrimination, and education law and accepts instructions across the full range of matters within these fields.

Prior to coming to the bar, Simon worked as a Legal Caseworker for United Voices of the World (‘UVW’), a trade union with a membership composed primarily of low-paid and precarious migrant workers. In this role, Simon regularly appeared unassisted in the Employment Tribunal in matters across the spectrum of employment law, including multi-day hearings in relation to Equality Act claims and trade union and whistleblowing detriment claims.

Simon has also acted as an employment law volunteer for the Free Representation Unit. In this capacity, Simon was successful in persuading the Employment Appeal Tribunal that an error of law had been made at first instance and so that an unfair dismissal claim should be remitted (Mbola v Royal Mail [2022] EAT 2).

Outside of employment law, Simon also has substantial education law experience, having worked as a paralegal at Coram Children’s Legal Centre and as a volunteer representative for the School Exclusion Project. Simon is therefore familiar with appealing Education, Health, and Care Plans to SENDIST, and has experience representing families of excluded children in Governors’ Disciplinary Committee and Independent Review Panel hearings.