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Christopher Stone KC
Position
Chris Stone is a highly rated barrister specialising in the areas of employment, tax and commercial litigation.
Employment: Chris’ practice covers all areas of employment and discrimination law. He often appears in multi-day discrimination and whistleblowing hearings in the Tribunals and advises on and acts in restrictive covenant cases in the High Court. He was lead junior in the Construction Industry Vetting Information Group Litigation.
Tax: Chris acts for HMRC and taxpayers in a broad range of direct tax disputes. Specialisms include: residence and domicile; deductibility of expenses; and taxation of employment (including employment status, intermediaries and termination). Cases include: Gaines-Cooper (Supreme Court); Daniel, Mertrux and Hargreaves (CoA); Samadian, Duckmanton, McLaren, Ramsay and Hargreaves (UT); G4S (FTT).
Chris is instructed in general commercial matters, particularly professional negligence and sports disputes.
For more information on Chris’ practice and latest case highlights, please consult his full Devereux profile.
Career
Appointed to Treasury Panel of Counsel (B Panel) in September 2016. Called 2007; Droop Scholar at Lincoln’s Inn. Educated St. Anne’s College, Oxford and Australian National University. Before coming to the Bar, Chris was a strategy consultant at Accenture and then M&A Manager at News International. This background supports his commercial and practical approach to legal issues.
Publications: Contributing author to Bloomsbury Professional’s Discrimination Law.
Languages
Conversational French.
Memberships
ELA, RBA, LCLCBA, COMBAR, PNBA
Leisure
President Kew Occasionals RF
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Tax: corporate
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Christopher Stone KC – Devereux ‘Chris is an able and clear advocate. His written advocacy is simple to follow and well drafted his oral advocacy is fluid and confident, he is agile when questioned by the judge.’
The Devereux tax group covers a broad range of contentious and non-contentious tax matters, and benefits from internal strength in core areas such as employment, commercial disputes and professional negligence. Members are regularly active for HMRC, but appear for both taxpayers and the government at all levels of the courts. Felicity Cullen KC advises owner managed businesses on complex international matters. Crossing over with his employment and sports expertise, Akash Nawbatt KC appeared before the Supreme Court in HMRC v Professional Game Match Officials Ltd, on the employment status and tax treatment of professional football referees. Aparna Nathan KC utilised capital allowances expertise as sole counsel for HMRC in Cheshire Cavity Storage 1 Limited, EDF Energy v HMRC, while Christopher Stone KC has a highly active disputes practice. Glenn Billenness was appointed director of clerking and business development in 2023.
London Bar > Tax: personal
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Christopher Stone KC –Devereux ‘Chris’ advocacy is excellent. He is able to make points in a clear and concise manner, while continuing to be very persuasive. He deals with questions from the judge calmly and directly.’
London Bar > Employment
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Christopher Stone KC – Devereux ‘His style of cross-examination is calm and understated, but also extremely forensic. He is great with clients and witnesses.’