Chambers of Colin Edelman QC
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Ingrid Simler QC
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Position
Barrister specialising in all areas of individual and collective employment law, including discrimination, restraint of trade and business transfers; also handles tax litigation and judicial review acting frequently for public bodies. Important cases include: Bahl v Law Society [2004] EWCA Civ 1070; Venables v Hornby [2004] ICR42 HL; R v A Special Commissioners ex p Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd 74 TC 511; R v CIR ex p Wilkinson [2005] UKHL 30; Barrett v Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Ltd [2003] EWCA Civ 789; Inspector of Taxes v Veltema [2004] EWCA Civ 193; Gaines-Cooper v HMRC [2010] EWCA Civ 83; [2008] EWCA Civ 1502; [2007] EWHC 2617; Tower Hamlets PCT v Ugiagbe [2010] UKEAT 0068; Eweida v BA Plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80; Shoesmith v OFSTED & Ors [2010] EWHC 852; [2011] EWCA Civ 642; Thorpe v HMRC [2010] EWCA Civ 339; HMRC v Halcyon Films LLP [2010] EWCA Civ 261.
Career
Called Inner Temple 1987; Silk 2006; Bencher Inner Temple 2008; Deputy High Court Judge 2010; Junior Counsel to Crown Panel A (until 2006); Standing Counsel to Inland Revenue 2002-06; Recorder 2002; general editor ‘Jordan’s Employment Law’; co-author ‘Butterworths Discrimination Law’.
Member
Employment Law Bar Association Committee; Employment Lawyers’ Association; Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); Administrative Law Bar Association; Revenue Bar Association.
Education
Henrietta Barnett School for Girls; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1985 MA); University of Amsterdam (1986 Dip EEC Law).
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Employment; Tax - corporate
