BA, LLB, LLMMr Simon Watters is a practising barrister, Senior Vice President of the Law Society of Western Australia, Chairman of the Professional Combat Sports Commission and Chairman of the Lions Hearing Foundation. He brings his considerable legal experience to bear on his role with the ESIA board to complement the commercial background of other members.
Simon Watters brings to the board of the Ear Science Institute Australia his considerable legal experience, having been admitted to practise since October 1990, to complement the commercial background of other members.
Mr Watters completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia and then a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Tasmania. He undertook his articles at Page Seager in Hobart, before travelling to England and was admitted there as a solicitor, practising for one year. Mr Watters then transferred to the Bar and was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn in 1992. He practised as a Barrister in England from 1992 until 1997.
Whilst practising in London, Mr Watters, after receiving a Chevening scholarship in 1995 (being awarded the Zelman Cowen Award, the prize for the top Chevening scholar given out each year in Australia), then completed a Master of Laws in European Company Law at King’s College, London.
Returning to Perth in 1997, Mr Watters was elected to the Western Australian Bar Association in 1999 and has since then been practising as a barrister at the independent Bar, currently from Albert Wolff Chambers. Mr Watters is also Senior Vice President of the Law Society of Western Australia and Chairman of the Lions Hearing Foundation, as well as Chairman of the Professional Combat Sports Commission.
Mr Watters is able to recognise the importance of hearing research and improved treatment through his own family. His youngest son has bi-lateral cochlear implants, the first implant at 18 months and the second when he was three.
Mr Watters provides a link between ESIA and the Lions Clubs of Western Australia, whose initial donation via the Lions Hearing Foundation began the process that will culminate in the state-of-the art ESIA complex in Subiaco.
He enjoys his role and time with ESIA’s well-qualified and professional board and receives great reward from the work of the organisation in assisting people, especially children, who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
