His Majesty’s Coroner for the Falkland Islands is Malcolm Simmons.

His Honour Judge Malcolm Simmons is a UK-qualified lawyer and judge. He qualified in England in 1992 and has worked in England and Wales and overseas. He has held a judicial office for over 20 years. He was a senior international judge for over thirteen years.

From 2004 to 2008, Judge Simmons served as an international judge of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, assigned to the war crime and serious organised crime panels. He has presided in many complex serious organised crime cases. He was also a judge in the first terrorism case to come before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From 2008 to 2017, Judge Malcolm Simmons served as an international judge in Kosovo. In 2014, he was appointed President of EU International Judges. In that role, he managed a team of over forty international judges drawn from most EU Member States and included judges from the United States. He continued to preside in war crime and serious organised crime cases including murder, organ trafficking, drug trafficking, people trafficking and complex financial crime.

In addition to his judicial function, Judge Malcolm Simmons served as an international member of the High Judicial Councils in Bosnia & Herzegovina and the Kosovo. He managed projects including monitoring and evaluating the performance of courts; judicial performance; the introduction of disciplinary rules for judges and prosecutors; access to justice for women, children and vulnerable adults; restructuring the court system; introduction of a computerised case management system; creation of a country-wide backlog reduction strategy for both criminal and civil cases and introducing a system to improve the administration of commercial disputes.

From 2017 to 2022, Judge Simmons was an international justice advisor and worked in Serbia, Pakistan and Maldives, advising the Supreme Courts and senior judiciary.

At the request of the Maldives Judicial Academy, Judge Simmons also assessed the Judicial Training curriculum and developed training modules and materials.

Most recently, Judge Simmons developed and rolled-out a judicial performance evaluation scheme in the Maldives. As part of that policy, all judges will be subject to regular evaluations.

In 2022, Judge Simmons was team leader of the highly successful European Commission project, ‘Supporting Justice Reform and Anti-Corruption’ in Maldives. This is a flagship project of the European External Action Service.  He was subsequently invited by the EEAS to assist in designing its ongoing engagement with justice sector institutions in Maldives.

In February 2022, Judge Malcolm Simmons was appointed resident judge in the Falkland Islands. His jurisdiction covers South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctica. He is also Her Majesty’s Coroner for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctica.

In 2023 Judge Simmons delivered training on ‘Command Responsibility’ and evidence for Ukrainian war crime investigators.