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News
- 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
- Tetraplegic claimant lives rent free in home purchased by insurer as part of settlement
- Supreme Court allows appeal in solicitors’ aggregation case
- Success in Chambers Global 2017
- HSBC chief loses tax probe case by HMRC
- Georgia Hicks appears for BBC presenters in a high profile application for specific disclosure against HMRC.
- Pivotal telecommunications case reaches the Court of Appeal
- Court of Appeal uphold Judgment of £1.5m damages against murderer
- Rob Weir QC acting for claimants granted permission to appeal to Supreme Court
- Thomas Cordrey appointed as the youngest member of the Harvey editorial board
- Court of Appeal decision in Pimlico Plumbers
- GLO obtained for former British Steel coke oven workers
- Samuel Nicholls returns to Chambers
Articles
- 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
- Eweida & ors: what it means for religion in the workplace
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012
- Does back to Work work?
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 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
- James Hudson
- Zoe Hamilton
- Luke Hubbard
- Charity Williams
- Joe Mosley
- Rayna Foster
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