Peter has a breadth and depth of experience and expertise in the field of VAT unsurpassed at the junior bar.
He is regularly instructed by accountants and solicitors to advise clients in many sectors, and is entrusted by HMRC with advice and litigation in complex high value cases. Peter has helped private clients successfully address a wide range of VAT issues, from Assessments to Zero-rating. Peter has recently acted for clients in the charities, education, e-commerce, insurance and financial services sectors, amongst others.
Peter has litigated over 90 important VAT cases (reported in Simon’s Tax Cases). He also has many successful appearances in the specialist tax tribunals and experience in the Court of Appeal and the European Court of Justice.
In 2017 Peter was part of the HMRC counsel team which won the Littlewoods multi-billion pound compound interest litigation in the Supreme Court, the only counsel to represent HMRC in every court throughout that litigation. He acted in the first VAT Group litigation in both the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Peter brings skills originally acquired across a broad range of civil litigation and honed in the tax field, including valuable insights gained from representing both private clients and HMRC.
His tax practice includes tax judicial reviews, human rights based claims, excise duty and other indirect taxes and direct tax.
Qualified 1989, Inner Temple; Monckton Chambers since 1991; member of Attorney General’s A Panel of counsel since 2005; regular contributor to the ‘Tax Journal’.
Basic French and German.
VAT Practitioners Group
Revenue Bar Association
Member of the A Panel of the Attorney General’s panel of counsel, first appointed 2005
Solihull School; New College, Oxford (BA Hens Jurisprudence); Jesus College, Cambridge (LLM).
Football, ballet.