Simon O’Dwyer

Inquests & Public Inquiries

Simon is regularly instructed in inquests on behalf of families, insurers and other properly interested parties. He has appeared in numerous Article 2 inquests concerning deaths in custody or hospital and long running jury inquests relating to fatalities in the workplace.

Selected Cases

Recent examples of instructions include:

• Representing the interests of an insurer in a two week jury inquest into the death of an employee working for a large electricity provider.
• Representing a prison officer in an Article 2 inquest into the death of a prisoner in custody.
• Representing an ambulance technician, who was made a properly interested party, in an Article 2 inquest into the death of a patient who was not conveyed to hospital and subsequently died.
• Representing a police call centre handler, who was made a properly interested party, in an Article 2 inquest into the death of a young female who was found dead in woodland.

Awards

Baron Dr Ver Heyden de Lancey Prize Middle Temple

Certificate of Honour (Middle Temple)

News

• CPR44.14: Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting – A Significant and Welcome Redressing of the Balance in Favour of Defendants
• Crown Office Chambers is delighted to announce the recruitment of Paul Higgins and Simon O’Dwyer

Articles

• CPR44.14: Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting – A Significant and Welcome Redressing of the Balance in Favour of Defendants
• Simon O’Dwyer succeeds on appeal against a refusal to make a finding of abuse of process and impose sanctions in accordance with the principles set out in Barry Cable v Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 1015

Qualifications

LLB (Hons) University of Bristol

BVC (Outstanding) 1^st in Order of Merit

Harmsworth Scholarship Middle Temple

Kalisher Scholarship

Memberships

PIBA