Simon Mount is a barrister specialising in public law, litigation, media and criminal law.

He has more than 10 years experience as a litigator and Crown Prosecutor in Auckland. He began his career as a Judges Clerk in 1995, and received a Fulbright Scholarship and an LLM degree from Columbia Law School in New York in 1999. He spent 9 months seconded to the Crown Law Office in Wellington in 2008-2009, specialising in appellate work. He has appeared in the Privy Council and at all levels in the New Zealand court system. His experience includes:

• Constitutional and administrative law
• Criminal law and procedure
• Prosecuting fraud and computer offending
• Appellate advocacy
• Judicial review
• Media law
• Jury trial advocacy
• Immigration and Refugee law
• Human Rights law
• International criminal law
• Coroner's inquests
• Pacific Islands Constitutional Law
• Public enquiry work (counsel assisting)

He is the Director of the Legal Research Foundation in Auckland, and a frequent contributor to Law Society continuing legal education events. He is one of the two consulting editors of Introduction of Advocacy, has taught advocacy at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law for 10 years, and is a co-teacher of the Masters course Prosecuting in the 21st Century at the University of Auckland.

Selected publications and conference papers include:

• Immigration and Refugee Law (book review) [2010] NZLJ
• "The Interface Between the Media and the Law", [2006] NZ L Rev 413
• "Freedom of Expression", Bill of Rights Intensive, NZ Law Society 2008
• "A Criminal Cases Review Commission for New Zealand", [2009] NZ L Rev 455.
• "Criminal Appeals", Legal Research Foundation Seminar, February 2009
• "The prosecutor and the media: balancing free speech and freedom of the press" NZ Law Society Symposium 2006
• "Parole in New Zealand", NZ Law Society Symposium 2004
• R v Shaheed: The Prima Facie Rule Revisited [2003] NZ L Rev 45
• "The Media and the Criminal Law", Criminal Law Conference 2003
• "Current Directions in Criminal Justice", NZ Law Society Symposium 2002
• "The Adversarial System - Is It Alive and Well?", NZ Law Society Symposium 2000

His scholarships and awards include a Fulbright Scholarship, the Cleary Memorial Prize, the Kensington Swan Law Scholarship, a Shieff Angland Law Prize, a Senior Prize in Law and an Auckland University Postgraduate Scholarship.