Marc Willers’ room in Garden Court Chambers, London was rather small, with every surface piled high with journals, papers, and books (most of them bookmarked) as Marc was midway through an urgent task to identify some authorities for a case. Marc, who was called to the Bar in 1987, began by telling me that it was not until a couple of years ago that he had started to give any serious thought to applying for QC. At that stage he had found himself increasingly up against silks (and often alone himself), and he was also getting encouragement from his peers […]
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 […]