APIL Military Special Interest Group Co-ordinator (Current).
APIL Military Special Interest Group Secretary (May 2018 - November 2019)
Partner & Head of Military, Hilary Meredith Solicitors Ltd, Wilmslow
APIL MEMBER SINCE: 18/02/10
Simon’s practice is focused on fighting for justice for military service personnel, veterans and their families.
After starting his career within the world of criminal defence, Simon soon developed a passion for claimant personal injury work. He moved to a leading national law firm, based in Manchester, to work in their Industrial Disease department and for over two and a half years handled a claimant caseload, specialising in asbestos related illness claims, noise induced hearing loss together with a mixture of high value accidents at work, public liability and occupiers’ liability claims, plus road traffic accident claims.
Simon joined Hilary Meredith Solicitors Ltd in 2009, and qualified as a solicitor in 2011. He became an associate solicitor at the law firm in 2014 and partner in 2018. Simon is head of military within the military and serious injury department specialising in claims against the MoD and more recently in relation to non freezing cold injuries (NFCI’s). One of Simon’s previous NFCI settlements (now published) has been commented on by counsel to be one of the highest NFCI settlement figures he has ever seen totalling over £800K (Gross).
Simon is passionate about his work, thriving on the tough challenges and rapidly changing environment of Law. His forte is litigation and he has a love of advocacy and fighting for justice on behalf of the armed forces and their families.
In 2019 Simon was named in The Legal 500 as a key lawyer with 2 of his reported cases in particular mentioned and a Testimonial of 'Simon Quinn is a very steady pair of hands with a great deal of experience in military claims'.
Simon was the first solicitor & applicant to be awarded with APIL's military injury specialist and assessor status by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).
The status of accredited military injury specialist is granted to a person who has not only achieved APIL senior litigator status, but who has also demonstrated an additional and further expertise in the specialist field of military claims. As an accredited military injury specialist, Simon will now act as an assessor for other candidates coming through the assessment process.
Many of Simon’s cases have featured in both the regional and national press for their success stories.