Simon Walsh (born 1962), is a British barrister who specialised in police, licensing, and ecclesiastical law.
[1] He served as a magistrate in the City of London (2000–10),[2] and as Alderman[1] for the Ward of Farringdon Without (2000–13).
[1] Walsh was educated at Manchester Grammar School,[3] before reading modern languages at Balliol College, Oxford,[1] graduating in 1984.
[3] He then studied law at City University, London, where he qualified as a lawyer in 1986.
[7] In August 2012, Walsh was charged with possessing five images of "extreme pornography", which were not found by police on his computers, but as email attachments on a Hotmail server account.