Simon Taylor

Year of Call: 1993

Simon Taylor is ranked as a leading junior in criminal fraud in Chambers & Partners (2008). He was praised as “a promising junior who impresses his more senior colleagues at the Bar.” He is regularly instructed to defend in cases brought by the SFO and DTI, and recently acted in a price fixing case fraud on the NHS brought by the SFO”

Regularly instructed to defend in the most serious and complex cases brought by the SFO, HM Revenue & Customs, and the DTI, Simon is an acknowledged leader in commercial and criminal fraud cases. Specialities include asset recovery, confiscation and restraint/receivership proceedings, as well as money laundering and other regulatory compliance issues. He has also represented a wide range of professionals in disciplinary tribunal hearings.

Simon has considerable experience in the appellate courts, where his track record includes roles in the first case brought by the Director of the Assets Recovery Agency, and in a leading decision on the doctrine of stare decisis. Other recent cases have involved a number of multi-million pound ‘carousel’ frauds brought by the SFO and an action relating to a major cartel/price fixing fraud against the NHS.