David Southern QC welcomed me warmly to his rooms in Temple Tax Chambers, Middle Temple, with their stunning views over Embankment Gardens towards the South Bank and Middle Temple Gardens. After making me a coffee, David suggested with wry good humour that he must be one of the “more mature” Silks appointed by HM The Queen in 2014. Be that as it may, called to the Bar in 1982, David was now one of the UK’s most in-demand tax lawyers, as well as an eminent tax academic – he was Visiting Professor and Director of School of tax law, Queen […]
Constantine Partasides QC was one of the youngest solicitor-advocates to be appointed to silk in 2014. (Four other solicitors were also successful.) He came to this country as an infant with his parents when they left Cyprus in 1974. But the ties with the UK predated that time, as his grandfather had fought in the Second World War as part of the British Colonial Armed Forces and had later settled here, becoming a fruit and vegetable trader in Covent Garden (in its original central London location). Constantine secured a fully state-funded assisted place at a top public school in 1979, […]