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Valentina Sloane KC
Position
Valentina is a leading barrister in EU relations, procurement and tax law, including VAT, excise and customs duties.
The directories have consistently recommended Valentina as an outstanding practitioner.
Valentina has extensive experience of leading heavyweight, complex and high-profile litigation. Her recent cases include appearing before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU in a challenge to the validity of EU tax legislation and representing the claimant in a challenge to the Government’s procurement of a £1 billion contract for a supercomputer, one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2022.
Valentina was previously a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel and has wide-ranging public law and judicial review expertise.
Career
Qualified 2000, Gray’s Inn.
Languages
French.
Education
Oxford (BA Law, First); Brussels (Diplôme d’Etudes Spécialisées en droit européen, grande distinction).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Tax: VAT and excise
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Valentina Sloane KC – Monckton Chambers
‘Valentina is incredibly bright and an excellent advocate in hearings. She is responsive and thinks quickly on her feet and she is incredibly well prepared and insightful.’
Monckton Chambers is praised as a ‘leading set for VAT’ and other indirect tax matters, and the set’s expertise in EU and public law enables its members to handle a wide range of complex cases for both taxpayers and HMRC. Melanie Hall KC has significant experience advising clients in the financial services sector. Of recent note, she was instructed by the taxpayer in E-Zec Medical Transport Services Ltd v HMRC, which concerned the refusal of HMRC to allow private ambulance operators to claim zero-rate VAT. Philip Moser KC has notable expertise in EU-related tax, VAT, and customs matters, in addition to VAT fraud. Valentina Sloane KC also has an impressive case load, and is representing Fenix International – operator of OnlyFans, a subscription content platform primarily used by sex workers – in one of the last British to reach the European Court of Justice, concerning if VAT should be charged on the full cost of content, or on the part of it which is the platform’s fee.
London Bar > Public procurement
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Valentina Sloane KC – Monckton Chambers ‘Valentina is a complete star, combining superb intelligence with laser-like legal insight.’