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Name:  Simon Jowett

Position:  Director

Specialist area of law: Criminal Defence

Contact address:  Wembley Office

Contact telephone numbers:  02087954411, 07968543358

Email address: simon.jowett@noblesolicitors.co.uk

Education: LLB, Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies

Career History: Simon qualified as a Solicitor specializing in criminal law in May 1997. In January 2000, together with Baljit Tank he founded Tank Jowett Solicitors, shortly after being joined by Rajesh Bhamm, and by 2011 Tank Jowett Solicitors grew to be a high profile criminal law firm with 3 offices in the London area. In April 2011 Tank Jowett merged with national firm Noble Solicitors and Simon Jowett is now one of 6 directors of one of the largest criminal law firms in the country.  

Case History:  Simon has defended in countless serious and high profile cases throughout his career, including over 20 murder cases , fraud, drug importation on a large scale, and blackmail to name but a few including many cases in the Court of Appeal. Simon has given numerous media interviews and his name is regularly quoted in newspapers as representing defendants in serious cases. All of Simon’s serious and high profile cases have come from recommendations and referrals, a testament to his diligence and hard work. Simon has taken on cases at various stages of the prosecution from being the lawyer in the police station interview, to being called in to take over the case in the middle of the trial. Just a few examples of his recent cases include:

R-v-Ian Strachan and another, Central Criminal Court, 2008.   Simon represented one of two persons charged with blackmail on a member of the Royal Family, the first case of such a kind for over 100 years, and reported on the front page of every national newspaper. Huge public resources were invested in prosecuting the defendants, and Simon worked tirelessly for 9 months on the case, battling against the weight of a well funded prosecution machine.

Ronald Arthur Biggs –v-Secretary of State for Justice, High Court 2009  Simon represented Ronnie Biggs the ‘Great Train Robber’ in his final bid for freedom, taking on the Home Secretary in the High Court for his overturning of the Parole Board’s decision to free Mr Biggs, and taking instructions from Mr Biggs from his prison hospital bedside.  Ronnie Biggs was freed that month on compassionate grounds, after Simon won the first stage of the case in the High Court.

R-v-Farhan Farah, Central Criminal Court, 2005   Simon defended a young Somali man facing murder charges over a 12 month period, advising him over 3 days of interviews in the police station, obtaining bail for him in extraordinary circumstances, before eventually, on the eve of the trial, persuading the Crown Prosecution Service to discontinue the charges, in what was a tremendously stressful period for the young man, who to this day remains thankful to Simon for his hard work and support and recommends clients on a regular basis.

R-v-John Hasse and others, Southwark Crown Court, 2008   Simon represented the lead defendant in a Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice case, where it was alleged that the Defendants had conspired together to obtain a Royal Pardon for two convicted drug dealers in 1995. The case involved allegations of corruption throughout the Criminal Justice system from customs officers to judges and even the then home secretary, and with 30,000 pages of served evidence, and five months to prepare after the Defendant sacked his lawyer and asked Simon to represent him, it was a huge undertaking.

The above are just a small number of the serious cases Simon has dealt with. He has secured numerous acquittals for his clients over the years, and is thanked by clients and their families for the tireless effort and energy he puts in to cases. No case is too big, and no case too small. Each criminal prosecution is tremendously important to a client. Whatever the criminal charges his clients face, his approach is to take on the matter as if it were his own, and devote all his resources to achieve the best possible outcome he can. As one City of London police detective recently begrudgingly said to Simon in the middle of a £8million mortgage fraud confiscation case – ‘If I ever got into trouble – I’d use you!’

Simon as a director of the firm regularly takes on cases on either a private or legal aid basis and can be contacted directly as above.

Personal circumstances: Simon lives in North London with his wife and four children. His personal interests include football, long distance running and languages. He is a regular charitable contributor to Plan International supporting disadvantaged families in third world countries, and Amnesty International.