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News
- Bruce Carr QC interviewed on BBC Outside Source regarding the current industrial relations landscape
- Peter Edwards represents Claimants in £198 million Police Widows Pension Judicial Review Application
- Bruce Carr QC interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about looming industrial action
- R (Hoey and others) v HMRC: HMRC successful in Court of Appeal
- Court of Appeal Hands Down Judgments in IR35 Appeals
- Andrew Burns QC gives evidence to joint Select Committees on P&O Ferries
- RMF Ltd v HMRC: Upper Tribunal clarifies the limits of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction when reviewing decisions to withdraw Gross Payment Status
- Court documents show UK asbestos manufacturer withheld information on dangers
- Alice Mayhew appointed Queen’s Counsel
- FTT determine correct tax treatment of £6M LIBOR-related termination of employment payment
- Court of Appeal upholds Upper Tribunal decision that gas cavities are not ‘plant’
- Howard Watkinson joins Devereux Chambers
- Hargreaves v HMRC: Upper Tribunal upholds validity of £84 million discovery assessment
- Akash Nawbatt QC and Christopher Stone Appointed Recorders
- Devereux counsel at the forefront of developing law on IR35
- Naghshineh v HMRC: Court of Appeal provides much-needed clarity on sideways loss relief and farming losses
- Court of Appeal decision in fatal claim brought under OLA 1984 and against highway authority
- Court of Appeal limit secondary victim claims
- Embiricos v HMRC: Court of Appeal provides guidance on Partial Closure Notice regime
- Court of Appeal of Cayman Islands dismisses appeal in landmark fraud claim
- Human Rights Act Declarations and damages award of £2.3 million secured for Claimant who was abused by the Care Co-Ordinator responsible for her treatment
- Court of Appeal rules on transitional provisions and limitation for consumer credit unfair relationship claims
- Court of Appeal judgment on correct tax treatment of employee share options and restricted securities
- 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
Articles
- The Court of Appeal’s guidance on IR35 employment status
- What is sufficient notice of allegations of fundamental dishonesty? (Jenkinson v Robertson)
- When a judge is asked to award an interim payment, should they be told about negotiations to settle?
- Business on own account?
- UK Tax Appeal Decision Provides Important Lessons on Use of Expert Evidence
- Clinical negligence secondary victim claims limited by Court of Appeal (Paul v Royal Wolverhampton)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Well placed for the future
Events
- Junior Employment Practitioner Seminar - Restrictive Covenants
- 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
- 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
- Injunctions - Sweet & Maxwell (14th edition)
- 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)
- 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)
Webcasts
- Enforcement of Foreign Taxes in the United Kingdom
- Limb Injuries: serious injury claims and rehabilitation - key issues in 2022
- 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
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- Vince Plant
- Glenn Billenness
- Cyrus Biggs
- Chris Downes
- James Hudson
- Zoe Hamilton
- Nathan Williams
- Kieron Hatwell
- Arin Kalayci
- Curtis Clarke
- Joe Mosley
- Ella Wicks
- Lola Towle
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