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Barristers
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News
- Win for Rob Weir QC in capacity strike out application in Court of Appeal
- Laurence Willicombe
- Travel Package win for Rob Weir QC in Supreme Court
- Devereux ranked in Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2021
- Isle of Man VAT assessment on supplies of doctors upheld
- Aparna Nathan QC and Ishaani Shrivastava successful in defending judicial review challenge
- Success in the Employment Tribunal in Ms A v Mr M Hill
- Supreme Court sets threshold for HMRC to give a Follower Notice
- Taxpayer win in HMRC v Wilkes: HMRC were not empowered to issue discovery assessments to recover HICBC
- Devereux Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Settlement Update: Summer 2021
- Aparna Nathan QC successful at the Upper Tribunal in upholding the FTT’s decision on the Mixed Member Partnerships Legislation.
- Upper Tribunal guidance on burden of proof in tax appeals
- Settlement for brain damaged S’riaah Parkes ensures lifetime care
- £4.6 million success for Joshua Carey in the Tax Tribunal: Gooch Technology Limited -v- The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs
- Samuel Nicholls represents Ms A in employment tribunal against ex-Hartlepool MP
- Kostal v Dunkley - inducements relating to collective bargaining in the Supreme Court
- Former adviser to the Ecclestone family found liable to pay tax, interest and penalties of over £20m
- Stephen Killalea QC and Stephen Cottrell secure £12.5M settlement
- Christopher Walker joins Devereux Chambers
- Claimant Receives Settlement After 24 Years
- Win in Supreme Court for widow entitled to recover under insurance policy
- Success in European Court of Justice for package holiday claimant
- Win for PPI claimant: key guidance on s.32 of the Limitation Act
- Expenditure on gas cavities ineligible for allowances for plant
- International Women’s Day 2021
- Invalid invoices and HMRC’s discretion: Tower Bridge GP Ltd -v- The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs [2021] UKUT 30 (TCC)
- New Rankings for Devereux in Chambers Global 2021
- Win in Supreme Court in jurisdictional battle against Shell
- Court of Appeal determines capital allowances claims on infrastructure assets
- B Share Scheme fails – Clipperton v HMRC [2021] UKFTT
- Andrew Burns QC elected as new Head of Chambers
- Win for widow in Court of Appeal occupiers’ liability case
- Supreme Court Judgment in the FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case Handed Down
- HMRC v Embiricos: Upper Tribunal allows appeal on the scope of HMRC’s power to issue a Partial Closure Notice
- Court of Appeal reinstates First-tier Tax Tribunal’s decision that Jersey-incorporated subsidiaries were resident in the United Kingdom for tax purposes
- Advocate General’s Opinion in X v Kuoni travel case
- Senior accountant cleared of multi-million pound allegation of cheating the public revenue
- New Rankings for Devereux in Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2021
- Devereux’s Legal 500 2021 Set Overview Released
- Devereux welcomes Hitesh Dhorajiwala and Charlie Hill
- New rankings for Devereux in Legal 500 2021
- Devereux’s Personal Injury Team Nominated at the Chambers Bar Awards 2020
- Upper Tribunal denies disclosure of MAP documents
- FCA Test Case Judgment Handed Down
- Victory in Holiday Illness Appeal
- New Devereux Appointments to the Attorney General’s London B Panel
- Court of Appeal guidance on Equal Pay Material Factor defence
- Devereux members represent HMRC and the taxpayer in IR35 case
- Employment Judge James Tayler appointed as Senior Circuit Judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal
- FCA business interruption test case hearing begins today
- Devereux Chambers ranked in Chambers & Partners’ High Net Worth Guide 2020
- Anna Greenley acts on behalf of the Government Legal Department in judicial review proceedings.
- Joshua Carey joins Devereux Chambers
- Colin Edelman QC and Richard Harrison act for the FCA in the Covid-19 business interruption test case which was issued today
- Devereux members explore COVID-19 employment law concerns
- The Devereux COVID-19 Employment Law Podcast: episode 3 is available now
- Akash Nawbatt QC and Colm Kelly successful in the Supreme Court
- The Devereux COVID-19 Employment Law Podcast: episode 2 is available now
- Robert Glancy QC Appointed to Premier League Judicial Panel
- Devereux Employment Team launch new podcast series
- 4th edition of Tax Avoidance by Rebecca Murray is now available
- Win for claimant in two vehicle attack
- No breach of Arron Banks’ human rights on UKIP donations
- Akash Nawbatt QC and Colm Kelly appear at the Supreme Court via video link
- PPI limitation appeal – deliberate concealment
- Service Update - 19th March 2020
- Court of Appeal victory in fatal clinical negligence claim
- IR35 applies to Eamonn Holmes’ work on This Morning
- Devereux in Chambers & Partners Global Rankings 2020
- Kostal v Dunkley - inducements relating to collective bargaining - goes to the Supreme Court
- Farming losses: restriction on sideways loss relief – HMRC win in the Upper Tribunal
- Ishaani Shrivastava in leapfrog appeal from Employment Appeal Tribunal to Supreme Court
- First judicial consideration of the Mixed Member Partnership Rules - Nicolas Walewski v HMRC [2019] UKFTT 0058
- UT holds that s8 Notices to file issued by computer are valid - The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs v. Nigel Rogers and Craig Shaw [2019] UKUT 0406 (TC)
- Upper Tribunal holds that HMRC can continue enquiries into multi-million pound claim for consortium relief
- Court of Appeal upholds the judgment of Swift,J preventing Royal Mail staff striking over the Christmas period.
- Royal Mail Wins High Court Strike Injunction
- HMRC v Goldsmith [2019] UKUT 0325: Upper Tribunal reverses FTT Decision that s8 TMA Notices to file were invalid
- Devereux wins Tax Set of the Year and Richard Harrison wins Insurance Junior of the Year at the 2019 Chambers UK Bar Awards
- Court of Appeal upholds decision of the High Court striking out ‘abusive’ private law claims brought by individuals who participated in failed tax avoidance schemes
- Victory in Supreme Court for the Executors in Routier and another v HMRC [2019] UKSC 43: “gifts to charities” cannot only mean gifts to UK charities
- Devereux ranked as a leading set in 8 specialist areas by Chambers UK 2020
- Devereux recommended in Legal 500 2020
- Four Devereux nominations in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2019
- Industrial Action Balloting Practice endorsed in Ryanair v BALPA
- Victory in Supreme Court for Asbestos Victims Forum
- Supreme Court refers package holiday case to CJEU
- New Devereux appointments to the Attorney General’s Panel
- Devereux ranked in Chambers High Net Worth 2019
- Rebecca Murray joins Devereux Chambers
- Court of Appeal rules that law on inducements relating to collective bargaining does not give unions a veto
- No discrimination in Shared Parental Leave appeals
- Devereux receives nominations for Chambers of the year and Barrister of the year in The Lawyer Awards 2019
- Highest ever personal injury award, including a £950,000 per annum Periodical Payment Order, secured by Devereux team for a catastrophically injured 7 year old Claimant
- Upper Tribunal hands down judgment in case concerning the interaction of IR35 and Categorisation Regulations
- Court of Appeal has ruled that insurers cannot present 100 percent of employers’ liability mesothelioma claims to any year of cover they choose
- Vicarious liability held not to cover drunken worker at Christmas party
- Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal in Information Notice JR – R(PML Accounting Ltd) v HMRC
- Rob Weir QC in Supreme Court win on jurisdiction and parent company liability
- First-tier Tax Tribunal determines that payments under a Premier League footballer’s image rights agreement taxable as earnings
Articles
- Daarasp and anor v HMRC
- Brexit - product liability, package holiday personal injury claims and rail accidents in the EU
- Analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in the FCA Covid-19 Test Case
- Life expectancy evidence - practical considerations for PI and clinical negligence claims
- The Secretary of State’s power to issue directions to Ofcom under the Communications Act 2003
- “Minor procedural changes” or a circumvention of crucial safeguards?
- Business Interruption Insurance and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Covid-19 and its effect on contractual obligations
- Balloting: what amounts to interference?
- Out of the Ordinary: Rob Hunter and Bethany Sanders on the Courts’ Approach to Life Expectancy Evidence
- Family value: the difficulty in valuing a mother’s care
- When may a parent company be liable for harm caused by the operations of its subsidiary: new developments in Vedanta Resources plc v Lungowe
- Supreme Court sets out test for disclosure of court documents to non-parties
- Developments in Parent Company Liability
- Reform of IR35 in the private sector
- First-tier Tribunal: clarity on taxation of compensation for discrimination during employment
- One year after the opening of the water market - deemed contract turmoil in the pipeline?
- Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Pre-April 2018 injury to feelings termination payment not subject to tax
- Court of Appeal rules on ‘fundamental dishonesty’ (Howlett and another v Davies and Ageas Insurance Ltd)
- Trends following the Communications (Access to Infrastructure) Regulations 2016
- Balancing Act
- Multiple penalty notices and the national minimum wage (The Best Connection Group Ltd v HMRC)
- Should the EU address conflict of laws questions thrown up by cross-border capital markets?
- Strike pay deductions: the consequences of Hartley
- Whistleblowing protection: a fluid approach
- Uplifts: where to next?
- Covert Surveillance and Social Media: From Big Brother to Love Island
- Whip-lash away?
- Jazztel: restitution and retrospectivity
- Court of Appeal clarifies scope of whistleblowing protection
- To remit or not to remit?
- Subject access: the battle lines are redrawn
- COT3s, settlement agreements and maternity pay
- Govia derailed: appeals to EU law rejected by the Court of Appeal
- Not just any contract
- The Future of The Employment Court
- Vicarious Liability: An Ever Expanding Concept
- Agency workers blowing the whistle: time to revisit the scope of protection?
- Access to infrastructure – new rights for the digital economy
- Personal injury: spinal injuries
- Domicile
- Setting the agenda ~ What’s the issue?
- Intimidating behaviour striking out and other options
- Apprenticeships: potential pitfalls
- Concurrent claims in tort and contract: test for remoteness of damage
- Redundancy payments and lay-off: an appropriate balance?
- How to restrain a vexatious employment tribunal litigant
- Vicarious liability even without employment contract
- Taxing talent: principle and pragmatism
- No prospects? Part 2: deposit orders in discrimination and whistleblowing cases
- Will the Trade Union Bill help or hinder industrial relations?
- No prospects ? Part 1: strike out in discrimination and whistleblowing cases
- Exploring the taxation of ‘injury to feelings’ termination payments
- Immunity of Police Misconduct Panel from employment claims
- Supreme Court hears important fatal accidents appeal in Knauer v MOJ
- Dealing with whistleblowing claims: tips for in-house lawyers
- A distinct break ~ the Upper Tribunal decision in HMRC v James Glyn
- Early conciliation: a practical approach
- Disciplinary investigations: when is HR advice appropriate?
- Dropbox: an acceptable method of serving documents on the EAT?
- The Insurance Act 2015 ~ Let’s pretend
- Coventry v Lawrence: old style costs regime survives human rights challenge
- Company v director: who pays for wrongdoing?
- Excluding documents from the bundle ~ A practical view from the tribunal
- Mind the gap
- Industrial action: performance and pay
- Tax on awards for injured feelings in discrimination cases
- Catastrophic injury: an exercise in persuasion
- Future imperfect
- EAT split on 10% uplift to discrimination awards
- Unfair relationships ~ Recent cases provide clarity but consumers lose out on agency provisions
- UK Supreme Court upholds CAT’s assessment of Ofcom’s 08x numbers determinations
- Issue estoppel in jurisdiction disputes
- The new capital gains tax regime for non-residents
- Sharing bundle preparation costs
- Taxation of termination: update from the Tax Tribunal
- Breaching a ‘commercial trust’
- The fraudulent devices principle now appears to be past praying for
- Strike laws and party politics
- Time-over on holiday underpayments
- Upper Tribunal decides on correct treatment of bonus clawback payments
- FHR European: the Supreme Court on bribes and constructive trusts
- Taking a Tax Appeal
- Sharing administrative costs in the employment tribunal
- Goodwill and its relations
- The PPI of the storm
- Reforming Communications Act appeals: a new ERRA?
- The Consumer Contracts (Information Cancellation, and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013
- What price success: AstraZeneca in the Court of Appeal
- Employment status and onshore intermediaries
- Caveat Case Manager
- Damage vs Damages: Stylianou v Suncorp, Rome II and the Applicable Law in International Personal Injury Law
- Don’t mess with the TUPE rules
- Glamour Law School
- Well placed for the future
- The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations by Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris
- Very appealing
- In the wrong hands: can solicitors escape liability when lenders claim for breach of trust?
- Pupillage at Devereux
Events
- Junior Employment Practitioner Webinar - TUPE: a beginner’s guide
- Law and Jurisdiction in Reinsurance - Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA International
- BILA Virtual Lecture - The Law of Reinsurance- topics from the 3rd edition
- Webinar: COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims - The Unresolved Issues
- Webinar Series: Discrimination Law Updates
- Webinar: Insurance Decisions of the Supreme Court: Insurance Policy or Public Policy?
- Insights and reflections on the Supreme Court judgment in the Covid-19 insurance test case
- Family Friendly Law
- Junior Employment Seminar: Indirect Discrimination: A Junior Practitioner’s Guide
- Money, money, money! An introduction to pay claims
- 22 QCs on the Hot Employment Law Issues 2018-19
- Industrial Disease Update
- Gross Misconduct: Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask…and cocktails
- A Smuggler’s Tale – Lessons from the High Seas
- Aggregation – a Series of Unfortunate Events?
- The Discount Rate: Whatever Next?
- Injunctions and how to get them
- Non-Doms Legislation Reforms: What You Need To Know
- Versloot: The Future for Collateral Lies
- Twitter ye not: Data Protection breaches in the workplace
- Employment Tribunal Procedure - Tips and Tactics
- The Future of the Employment Court ~ post-fees and post-Brexit
- Employment law in the context of advising schools
- The Insurance Act 2015 - A New Dawn?
- The Post Claims Club
- Damages for late payment of insurance claims ~ All change for the Settlement Express?
- Next Generation Personal Injury
- RBA and Criminal Bar Association: a joint panel discussion
- Expert witnesses in personal injury cases
- High Court litigation ~ Costs and experts, a practical insight
- Anti-money laundering and financial crime conference 2015 ~ Keeping pace with change
- PIBA Annual Conference 2016
- Comparative techniques of obtaining oral evidence in international arbitration
- Liability insurance conference ~ Walking shadows in the night
- Current employment law issues faced by in-house lawyers
- How to argue consent, causation and candour in clinical negligence cases
- Managing a trust business in 2015
- Tax planning for non-domiciliaries
- Understanding and challenging Ofsted ~ a legal perspective
- High Court litigation - Restrictive covenants, confidentiality and injunctions: what’s new?
- Crossing the line: when ‘avoidance’ escalates to a criminal investigation
- ARIAS UK: AGM and workshop conference
- 22 QCs on the hot issues in employment law for 2015-16
- LSE Law public debate: a question of law and wealth
- Fourth international white collar crime institute
- Practical tax planning 2015
- Regulatory certainty in fast-moving competitive markets
- ELA 2015 conference and dinner
- Serious personal injury and clinical negligence update ~ Best practice and litigation tactics
- Competition law event at Konkurrensverket, Sweden
- BILA Mock Trial - Insurance Act 2015
- The 2015 midyear event of the ABA International Labour and Employment Law Committee
- Resolving tax disputes event
- The application of the anti-circumvention provisions in sanction cases
- Sweet & Maxwell’s Second Annual Employment Law Conference
- The effects under English law of sanctions and ways to mitigate them
- 9th Junior competition conference
- Serious personal injury update ~ Best practice and litigation tactics
- International asbestos litigation forum 2015
- UK GAAR: Impact on private clients conference 2015
- Insurance cover for liability for abuse
- UK landscape for non-res and non-dom property investment
- The new tax landscape for collateral debts and for property owned by non-residents
- Tax seminar
- Tax Journal Masterclass
- Urbano Finance
- Product liability seminar
- Employment Law in the Context of Advising Schools
- Tax roundtable
- Tax roundtable
- Tax roundtable
- Tax roundtable
- Professional Negligence seminar
- Professional Negligence seminar
- Professional Negligence seminar
- Employment Status
- City Book Fair
- Legacy Insurance, Asbestos and Latent Claims
- School Admissions Exclusions and Appeals
- Annual Bar Conference
- Hot Issues in Employment Law in 2012
- Professional Indemnity Seminar
- Commercial Law Seminar
- Commercial Law Conference
- The Supreme Court on contract and unjust enrichment ~ Significant recent decisions
- Military Claims Conference
- Whither Insurance Contract Law Reform?
- Mohinderpal Sethi joins distinguished panel of employment lawyers at conference on hot topics in Employment Law
- Bruce Carr QC is a keynote speaker at the Lexis Nexis Trade Union and Employment Law conference 2011
- Ingrid Simler QC joins panel of outstanding professionals for the ‘Women in Law’ debate
- Ingrid Simler QC chairs the Big Voice London ‘Equality and Law’ Event
- Practical Tax Investigations
- The Simon’s and DeVoil Conference
- Judicial Review Conference
- Tax Issues on Termination - Traps and Tips
- The Great Fraud Debate
- Employment Status Update: the implications of Autoclenz v Belcher and other recent cases on employment status
- ELA Annual Conference
- International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Oil & Gas Industry Workshop
- BIBA Conference (May 2016) - Insurance Act 2015 and Enterprise Act 2016
Books
- The Law of Reinsurance (3rd edition, 2021)
- Tax Avoidance (4th edition) by Rebecca Murray (2020)
- Discrimination Law - Bloomsbury Professional (2016)
- Injunctions - Sweet & Maxwell (12th edition)
- The Autonomy of Labour Law (2015)
- Book review ~ ‘Human Rights Law’ by Merris Amos (2nd edition)
- Residence of Individuals under Tax Treaties and EC Law (2010)
- The Law of Reinsurance (2nd edition, 2013)
- Employment in Schools: A Legal Guide (2007)
- Health & Safety the Modern Legal Framework (2nd edition)
- Sports Injury Law and Practice (2002)
- Bean on Injunctions (11th edition)
- The Law of Education (2nd edition, 2004)
- McCutcheon on Inheritance Tax (6th edition)
- Employment Aspects of Business Reorganisations (2006)
- IER Employment Act 2008
- Equality and Discrimination: The New Law (1st edition, 2010)
- Discrimination Law - Bloomsbury Professional (2012)
- Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law (1996)
- Jordans Employment Law (2011)
- Termination of Employment (2011)
Webcasts
- The Forstater Judgment from the EAT – What does it really mean?
- Elevenses Tax Series
- COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims - The Unresolved Issues
- Insurance Decisions of the Supreme Court: Insurance Policy or Public Policy?
- Junior Tax Practitioner Webinars
- Afternoon Tea with Devereux
- IR35 for Employment Lawyers - ELA
- IR35 tax case update June 2019
- Employment tax in 2017
- TU Bill: plus certification officer power changes
- Vicarious liability: the two stages of the test and what the Supreme Court has had to say in Cox and Mohamud
- Non-UK domiciliaries: the new Residential Property Tax
Practice Managers
- Laurence Willicombe
- Vince Plant
- Glenn Billenness
- Cyrus Biggs
- Chris Downes
- James Hudson
- Zoe Hamilton
- Nathan Williams
- Charity Williams
- Kieron Hatwell
- Arin Kalayci
- Joe Mosley
- Ella Wicks
- Curtis Clarke
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