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Barristers

• Andrew Burns
• William Beddows
• Sarah Harty
• Christopher Walker
• Thomas Westwell
• Matthew Bignell
• Joshua Carey
• Hitesh Dhorajiwala
• Charlie Hill
• Rebecca Murray
• HH Jeffrey Burke
• HH Peter Clark
• Anna Greenley
• Sam Way
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• Marianne Tutin
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• Aparna Nathan
• Bayo Randle
• Ishaani Shrivastava
• Katya Hosking
• Georgia Hicks
• Stephen Cottrell
• Sebastian Purnell
• Richard Royle
• Jesse Crozier
• Georgina Hirsch
• Kate Balmer
• Alice Carse
• Christopher Stone
• Samuel Nicholls
• Thomas Cordrey
• Talia Barsam
• Laura Bell
• Lucinda Harris
• Jonathan Butters
• Rachel Avery
• Alice Mayhew
• Rob Hunter
• Shaen Catherwood
• Akash Nawbatt
• Barrie Akin
• Felicity Cullen
• Richard Cartwright
• Peter Edwards
• Richard Harrison
• Colin Mendoza
• Nicholas Bard
• Robert Weir
• Stephen Killalea
• Graham Read
• Timothy Brennan
• Robert Glancy
• Colin Edelman
• Bruce Carr
• Rory Cochrane

News

• Upper Tribunal determines that disclosure notes in marketed SDLT avoidance schemes were inadequate to prevent discovery assessments
• Kostal v Dunkley: UK Supreme Court removes veto threat but requires full collective bargaining before any direct offers
• Court of Appeal rules that uncontroverted expert evidence can be rejected in same way as controverted expert evidence
• New Rankings for Devereux in Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2022
• Sheiling Properties Ltd v HMRC: APNs and PAYE Determinations
• Court of Appeal rejects Arron Banks’ inheritance tax appeal
• Devereux welcomes Thomas Westwell and Matthew Bignell
• New rankings for Devereux in The Legal 500 2022
• Court of Appeal allows appeal in professional football referees employment status case
• Colin Edelman QC shortlisted for Barrister of the Year
• 10,000 Black Interns Programme
• Bruce Carr QC to conduct an independent review into Royal College of Nursing organisational culture
• Tax Junior of the Year nomination for Marika Lemos
• New Devereux Appointments to the Attorney General’s Panels
• 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

Articles

• Recent developments in Covid-19 Business Interruption litigation
• The Court of Appeal’s ruling in PGMOL: seven lessons on mutuality of obligation
• Black History Month: I wouldn’t have made it to the Bar without my dad
• The high income child benefit charge post-Wilkes
• 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

Events

• ELA Mock Employment Tribunal
• 22 QCs 2021
• 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

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

• Elevenses with Devereux - HMRC v Wilkes
• Elevenses with Devereux - R (Haworth) v HMRC
• The Forstater Judgment from the EAT – What does it really mean?
• Elevenses with Devereux - SDLT: recent developments on the meaning of ‘dwelling’
• COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims - The Unresolved Issues
• Insurance Decisions of the Supreme Court: Insurance Policy or Public Policy?
• Elevenses with Devereux - Tricky Treaty Points
• Elevenses with Devereux - End of Year Review & Panel Discussion
• Elevenses with Devereux - The Taxation of Interest and its Sources
• Elevenses with Devereux - Charman v HMRC: the scope and application of the “by reason of employment” test
• Junior Tax Practitioner Webinars
• Elevenses with Devereux - Fowler v HMRC: implications for the interpretation of double taxation conventions
• Elevenses with Devereux - Partnerships and Inheritance Tax
• Elevenses with Devereux - A Practical Insight into Mutual Agreement Procedures
• Elevenses with Devereux - Transfer of Assets Abroad: key features and case update
• Elevenses with Devereux - Embiricos, Levy & Henkes: To close or not to close?
• Elevenses with Devereux - Farming losses: when is the restriction to sideways loss relief lifted?
• Elevenses with Devereux - Judicial review as a remedy in the tax context
• Elevenses with Devereux - An Update on the FTT with Judge Sinfield
• Elevenses with Devereux - Partnerships and Enquiries
• COVID-19 Insurance Notifications
• Elevenses with Devereux - Unallowable Purpose
• Elevenses with Devereux - SDLT and the definition of “Residential Property”
• COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Claims
• Elevenses with Devereux - LLPs: Mixed Membership Partnership Rules and Profit Attribution
• Elevenses with Devereux - COVID-19: implications for corporate residence and individual residence under the SRT
• Elevenses with Devereux - Arron Banks v HMRC: the implications for discrimination claims in the tax context
• 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

Business Services

• Vince Plant
• Jacki Muirhead
• April Peacham
• Diane Boardman
• Martin Cornwell
• Ellese North
• Joanne Keable
• Luke Holcroft