Stewarts Law LLP

Tax Litigation and Resolution

Partner and Head of the Tax Litigation department.

David specialises in complex tax disputes with HMRC and commercial parties before the Tax Tribunals, UK and European Courts. He acts for a large number of high net worth individuals as well as various corporate clients across a range of sectors.

David has acted on numerous high-profile direct and indirect tax cases before the courts and Tax Tribunals, including two cases before the Supreme Court. In addition to his vast experience in HMRC litigation, David also acts in professional negligence and mis-selling actions and other tax-related commercial litigation.

In addition to David’s substantial tax practice, David has also acted in numerous public law cases, many of which arose from his tax client base. These have included two judicial review challenges which proceeded to the Supreme Court (Prudential and Davies & James / Gaines-Cooper), and one to the Court of Appeal (Shiner). David also acted in the States of Jersey’s judicial review against the UK government, which was widely covered in the media at the time.

David’s experience includes:

• Running the well-publicised Prudential privilege litigation from the High Court to Supreme Court
• Acting in the Littlewoods compound interest litigation before the High Court
• Conducting the Stamp Taxes Group Litigation Order for the claimants
• Acting for a number of FTSE100 companies in the FII and dividend Group Litigation Orders
• Acting in the residency judicial review Davies and James/Gaines-Cooper, which also reached the Supreme Court

David joined Stewarts as a partner in 2014 to establish the Tax Litigation and Investigations department having spent 10 years as a tax litigation lawyer at PwC Legal.

David enjoys spending time with his young family, playing tennis (not well), a glass of wine or two and the outdoors.

Tennis, gardening, photography, all taking a back seat since the birth of his first child at the end of 2014.