Tower Bridge GP Ltd v Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs: Howard Watkinson and Joshua Carey to appear in important VAT invoicing appeal. To read the full news item, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews040722

Basfar v Wong [2022] UKSC 20: A transformative Supreme Court judgment holding a diplomat accountable for modern slavery. Ishaani Shrivastava represented the claimant. To read the full news item, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews060722

Devereux has been shortlisted in eight categories, across six practice areas, at The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2022. Our nominations include:

Fire-and-rehire – is it lawful? In an article for ELA Briefing, @AndrewBurnsQC and @MarianneTutin explore the practice of dismissal and re-engagement. To read the full article, please visit: bit.ly/DevArt070722

Devereux Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Settlement Update: Summer 2022. For a summary of the recent settlements achieved by Devereux members, please visit: bit.ly/DevBlog130722

Joshua Carey and Sam Way appear in the Court of Appeal in an employment tax appeal concerning the meaning of “profit” under the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003. To read the full news item, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews2150722

FTT Imposes £1m DOTAS non-disclosure penalty. Akash Nawbatt QC QC and Ishaani Shrivastava appeared in HMRC v Hyrax Resourcing Limited. To read the full news item and a copy of the decision, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews250722

Court of Appeal rules on the need for a valid VAT invoice to exercise the right to deduct. Howard Watkinson and Joshua Carey appeared in Tower Bridge GP Ltd v The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs. To read the full news item, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews100822

Striking-out criminal penalty proceedings: the impact of Article 6 ECHR – Howard Watkinson and Joshua Carey appear in CF Booth Limited v The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs [2022] UKUT 00217 (TC). To read the full news item, please visit bit.ly/DevNews110822

New appointments to the Attorney General’s Panels of Counsel for Marika Lemos, Rebecca Murray, Joshua Carey, and Colm Kelly. To read the full news item, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews120822

Reasonable excuse, special circumstance and deliberately withholding: The UT weighs in again with a twist. Joshua Carey appears in Harrison -v- The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs [2022] UKUT 00216. To read the full news item, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews300822

Nominations for Robert Weir QC, Talia Barsam and Christopher Stone at the #ChambersUKBarAwards 2022. For more information, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews310822

The taxpayer in Professional Game Match Officials Limited v HMRC has been given permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. Devereux Counsel are instructed on both sides. To read the full news item, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews140922

On Monday we welcomed Penningtons Manches Cooper and Sika UK for a bespoke interactive Mock Employment Tribunal. For more information on our Mock Employment Tribunals, please contact Glenn Billenness and Cyrus Biggs: bit.ly/2Qur77u

In Legal 500 2023, Devereux has been ranked as a leading set in 9 practice areas. Members, including all 12 King’s Counsel, received 82 individual rankings. For more information, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews290923

The Claimant in Griffiths v Tui (UK) Ltd, represented by Robert Weir KC and Stephen Cottrell, has been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. For more information, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews300922

The Supreme Court has refused the taxpayer’s application for permission to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Embiricos v HMRC. Akash Nawbatt QC KC and Sebastian Purnell were instructed in the Court of Appeal. For more information, please visit: bit.ly/DevNews041022

In an article for Tax Journal, Joshua Carey and Sam Way discuss how the Court of Appeal’s decision in HMRC v Murphy brings refreshed simplicity to a tortured area of the law. To read the full article, please visit: bit.ly/DevArt041022

EAT holds that employee who appealed her dismissal did not withdraw from that appeal by informing her employer that she no longer wished to be reinstated to her previous role. When appeal then succeeded, she was to be treated as having never been dismissed bit.ly/3E5PcL8

Chambers UK Bar Awards 2022 - Robert Weir KC won Personal Injury Silk of the Year and Christopher Stone won Tax Junior of the Year at the 2022 Chambers UK Bar Awards. #ChambersUKBarAwards For more please click here; bit.ly/3AsJoJr