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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 has excellent attention to detail and is a very persuasive and incisive advocate who commands the attention of the court. He is also an excellent, forensic cross-examiner.’
Devereux is highly active on behalf of HMRC, and as such provide ‘extremely valuable insight for taxpayers‘, in both contentious and advisory mandates. The group covers commercial disputes and professional negligence in the tax space, and is noted for its employment tax aptitude. Felicity Cullen KC is particularly active for owner-managed businesses, and has experience advising on tax matters with complex cross-border elements. This is also an area of expertise for Akash Nawbatt KC, who appeared for HMRC in Lloyd’s Banking Group v HMRC, a case relating to cross-border group relief of losses. Aparna Nathan KC has strength in matters relating to mixed member partnership rules. Christopher Stone KC took silk in 2024, and is noted for his aptitude in employment tax. Senior junior Barrie Akin is ‘personable, helpful, and kind’, and acts on behalf of both businesses and individuals.
London Bar > Tax: personal
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Christopher Stone KC –Devereux ‘Chris is a confident and persuasive advocate, who takes the time to get across the details of a case. He is also very personable, easy to deal with, and good with clients.’
London Bar > Employment
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Christopher Stone KC – Devereux ‘An insightful, fearless and persuasive silk.’
Devereux houses a team with ‘strong and well-respected employment expertise‘. Employment litigation remains a key area of instruction for the group, which also continues to advise on high-profile industrial relations matters. Bruce Carr KC is ‘a vastly experienced employment barrister‘, ‘always a reassuring presence for clients‘, and Andrew Burns KC is highly regarded for his ‘particular strength in industrial relations issues‘. The ‘shrewd and capable‘ Alice Mayhew KC is well versed in handling complex cases involving allegations of discrimination and whistleblowing, as well as equal pay claims. Turning to the juniors, Peter Edwards has an established track record in representing claimants and respondents in a wide spectrum of employment law matters, often acting for large banks and financial institutions in claims. Anna Greenley recently appeared before the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Nicol v World Travel and Tourism Council, a case concerning the degree of knowledge a decision maker must have of a whistleblower’s protected disclosure, in order for a claim of dismissal and detriment to be successful. The senior end of the team was bolstered by Christopher Stone KC taking silk in March 2024.