Simon Burrows

Practice

Employment
Personal injury
Clinical negligence
Mental Health
Community care

Profile

Simon has a long standing specialist interest in employment law, both in the Employment Tribunal (including discrimination work) and the ordinary Courts. As well as considerable experience in equal pay disputes, race and sex discrimination, TUPE and multiple redundancies in Tribunals. He regularly advises employers and employees on the enforcement of post-termination restraint clauses/garden leave and the protection of trade secrets and confidential information, and has appeared recently in a number of High Court injunction cases.

Simon also practises in personal injury work - principally industrial injuries and disease; asbestos related conditions, WRULD's, hand arm vibration/vibration white finger, asthma, dermatitis, work induced hearing loss, and work related stress. He has a particular interest in psychiatric injuries. He also has an interest in public liability, with a particular specialisation in fairgrounds. Areas of clinical negligence involve psychiatry (both in terms of wrongly prescribed medication and suicides of patients), also obstetrics and gynaecology, cardiology and orthopaedics and inquests into deaths of patients in Hospital.
He also acts in professional negligence cases, usually relating to his specialist areas of knowledge.

Simon has advised and represented in the Care Standards Tribunal(regulation of care homes and children's homes) and the General Medical Council.
In the area of mental health, Simon has a growing interest in issues relating to the rights of mentally disordered patients, particularly those detained with restrictions and those lacking mental capacity. The implications of the Mental Capacity Act on the life, liberty and property of those who lack capacity, including consent to treatment and community care.

Significant Reported Cases

Moore v Welwyn Components (reported as part of Hartman v South Essex HA [2005] EWCA Civ. 06) Work related stress

Mitchell v CSCI [2004] 0369 EA
Refusal to register the manager of a childrens home

Park Manor v Commission for Social Care Inspection [2002] 0360 EA
A long running case involving the cancellation of a care home, one aspect of which related to consent to examination and the human rights of residents, and was the very last case to be heard by the Registered Homes Tribunal

Priestley v Harrogate HA [2001] EWCA Civ 183
Appeal following a successful High Court claim by a nurse as a result of a negligent episiotomy carried out by her own Hospital, issues of inappropriate judicial behaviour.

Burke v Lancashire County Council [2001] EWCA Civ 1679
Foreseeability in negligence

Memberships:

Employment Law Bar Association
Personal Injuries Bar Association
ALBA
Bar Pro Bono Unit and Lawworks
Northern and North Eastern Circuits

Career & Education

University of Durham:
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BA (Hons) - philosophy

BA (Dunelm) Dip. Law LLM

1990

2006

Part-time President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal

Simon Burrows

Year of Call:  1990

Specialises In:
Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence, Employment

Clerked by:
 Stephen Loxton

 

 

 

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