Expertise

• Off-payroll working (IR35)
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Barristers

• Timothy Brennan
• Rebecca Murray
• HH Jeffrey Burke
• HH Peter Clark
• Anna Greenley
• Sam Way
• John Platts-Mills
• Harry Sheehan
• Colm Kelly
• Harriet Fear Davies
• Paul Emerson
• Matthew Sellwood
• Marianne Tutin
• Marika Lemos
• Aparna Nathan
• Bayo Randle
• Ishaani Shrivastava
• David Peter
• Katya Hosking
• Georgia Hicks
• Stephen Cottrell
• Ryan Hawthorne
• Sebastian Purnell
• Richard Royle
• Jesse Crozier
• Georgina Hirsch
• Kate Balmer
• Alice Carse
• Christopher Stone
• Samuel Nicholls
• Thomas Cordrey
• Talia Barsam
• Tom Vonberg
• Laura Bell
• Lucinda Harris
• Jonathan Butters
• Rachel Avery
• Alice Mayhew
• Rob Hunter
• Shaen Catherwood
• Akash Nawbatt
• Barrie Akin
• Felicity Cullen
• Richard Cartwright
• Andrew Burns
• Jolyon Maugham
• Peter Edwards
• Richard Harrison
• Colin Mendoza
• Bruce Silvester
• Nicholas Bard
• Robert Weir
• Stephen Killalea
• Graham Read
• Robert Glancy
• Colin Edelman
• Bruce Carr
• Rory Cochrane

News

• 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
• Supreme Court confirms repairs on private land will not require compulsory insurance under UK law
• Court of Appeal guidelines case on sentencing for contempt of court by an expert
• Court of Appeal overturns Working Time ruling on Compensatory Rest
• Union application for injunction to prevent waste collection defeated
• Stephen Cottrell establishes that a GP’s negligence caused the death of a woman with a pulmonary embolism
• Court of Appeal gives guidance on the scope and extent of Ramsay
• New appointments to the Attorney General’s C Panel
• Aparna Nathan appointed Queen’s Counsel
• Devereux wins Tax Set of the Year
• Four Devereux nominations in the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2019
• Devereux ranked as a leading set in 8 specialist areas by Chambers UK 2019
• Devereux recommended in Legal 500 2019
• Devereux Chambers involved in one of the first decisions under the new Electronic Communications Code
• Court of Appeal gives judgment this week in two significant appeals on whistleblowing and territoriality
• Win on vicarious liability in Court of Appeal
• Principal Private Residence Relief – period of ownership
• Two Devereux nominations in the Chambers Bar Awards 2018
• Landmark decision in the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) rules that ‘National Group’ referees are self-employed
• Court of Appeal upholds non-party’s right to access to copies of trial documents
• British Coal group action win for widow in claim 25 years out of time
• Stobart Group appoints Alice Mayhew as independent investigator following recent whistleblowing and bullying claims
• Devereux ranked in Chambers High Net Worth 2018
• Sleep-in shifts do not count as time work for national minimum wage
• No taxable supply on salary sacrifice adjustment
• High Court rejects judicial review of recovery of provisional tax repayments
• Significant decision on calculation of compensation for PPI claims
• Mrs Justice Simler appointed as Lady Justice of Appeal
• Novel agreement to compensate for risk of marital breakdown in severe brain injury case
• Harriet Fear Davies in successful outcome in longest and largest Cayman Islands fraud case
• High Court dismisses challenge to follower notice
• Holidaymaker held to have broken chain of causation when he fell from balcony ledge
• Supreme Court decision on insured perils and excepted perils under the Institute War Clauses
• Shared Parental Leave Update – EAT finds no Direct Discrimination but opens the door to Indirect Discrimination
• Court of Appeal refuses remedy to holidaymaker assaulted by hotel staff
• Sub-contractor unable to benefit from project insurance for construction works
• Win in Supreme Court for Rob Weir QC
• Court of Appeal rules on Qualification to be a Reinsurance Arbitrator
• Decision handed down in the first of a series of appeals concerning the application of IR35
• Thomas Cordrey successful in Court of Appeal
• EAT rules on inducements relating to collective bargaining
• Court of Appeal allows HMRC’s appeal in Raftopoulou v HMRC
• Rob Weir QC and Jonathan Butters in victory for Asbestos Forum
• Robert Weir QC in the Supreme Court in actionable damage claim
• Devereux shortlisted in The Legal 500 UK 2018 Bar Awards
• Aparna Nathan successfully represents HMRC in the Supreme Court
• Devereux ranked as a leading set in 7 specialist areas by Chambers UK 2018
• P v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: Supreme Court fills gap in Equality Act 2010 to give effect to EU rights
• Success for Tom Vonberg in the Court of Appeal
• Appeal in JR accommodation claim settled
• Colin Edelman wins Insurance Silk of the Year
• Royal Mail Wins High Court Strike Injunction
• Success in Legal 500 2017
• Harriet Fear Davies returns to Chambers after 129 day trial in Cayman
• Devereux welcomes new tenant
• Should the EU address conflict of laws questions thrown up by cross-border capital markets?
• Rob Weir QC recovers full damages for brain injured employee electrocuted at work
• Devereux ranked in Chambers High Net Worth Directory
• Devereux nominated for two Chambers UK Bar Awards
• Tests for disability and anonymity considered by EAT
• Court of Appeal allows appeal on conspicuous unfairness
• EAT gives significant judgment in appeal on individual liability for whistleblowing detriment
• HMRC wins significant case on Corporation Tax
• Stephen Cottrell appointed as arbitrator
• Devereux team in major telecoms case
• Employment Tribunal general damages uplift
• EAT decides scope of collective consultation for redundancies overseas
• Diverted Profits Tax: Application for judicial review refused
• New appointment to the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel (A Panel)
• Test Case on Correct Tax Treatment of North Sea Divers’ Employment Income
• Members of Chambers speak at Combar NYC
• Devereux member on ILS committee
• Stephen Killalea QC in £16m settlement of child brain damage case
• Devereux recommended in Who’s Who Legal (UK Bar 2017)
• Devereux barristers successful in first Data Protection Act case to apply Dawson-Damer and Ittihadieh / Deer
• Akash Nawbatt QC and Sebastian Purnell successfully defend derivative work product delivery up claim:  R(PML) v HMRC

Articles

• 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
• Criminal law needed to force banks to behave
• 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
• Financial crime: the UK’s first Deferred Prosecution Agreement
• Dealing with whistleblowing claims: tips for in-house lawyers
• A distinct break ~ the Upper Tribunal decision in HMRC v James Glyn
• Undertaking Customer Due Diligence on your customer’s customer
• 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
• Holt v Attorney General - professional fees and the money laundering offences
• 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
• HSBC, tax evasion and criminal prosecution
• 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
• Risk, recklessness and policing the financial markets
• FHR European: the Supreme Court on bribes and constructive trusts
• Assessing and managing the impact of economic sanctions on commercial contracts
• 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?
• Star Quality
• Beverly Landais talks to The Lawyer
• Concurrent proceedings in tax residence cases
• Pupillage at Devereux

Events

• 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
• How to navigate offshoring, territorial jurisdiction and employment status
• 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
• Where are we now? Private client post budget taxation update
• 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
• Transcontinental trusts 2015 and international trust litigation
• 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
• What might the new non-dom rules look like?
• 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
• Indirect Tax Meeting March 2015 - Tax & Ethics
• 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
• AIRMIC Conference June 2016 - New Frontiers In Risk
• ELA Annual Conference and Dinner 2016
• Judicial review and tax: what will run and what won’t

Books

• 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)
• Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law (1996)
• Employment Aspects of Business Reorganisations (2006)
• IER Employment Act 2008
• Equality and Discrimination: The New Law (1st edition, 2010)
• Discrimination Law - Bloomsbury Professional (2012)
• Jordans Employment Law (2011)
• Termination of Employment (2011)

Webcasts

• 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

• Vince Plant
• Glenn Billenness
• Chris Downes
• Laurence Willicombe
• Cyrus Biggs
• Clare Ryley
• James Hudson
• Zoe Hamilton
• Luke Hubbard
• Charity Williams
• Joe Mosley
• Rayna Foster
• Ella Wicks

Business Services

• Vince Plant
• Jacki Muirhead
• April Peacham
• Diane Boardman
• Martin Cornwell
• Joanne Keable
• Amal Abdillahi