Currently full-time Special Commissioner of Income Tax, and Chairman of VAT and Duties Tribunals (both part-time 1991-2001)
Speechly Bircham, Solicitors, 1966 - 2001, from 1970 as partner and from 1985 as senior partner
Trinity College, Cambridge, PhD (1993 for published works), LLM (1965), undergraduate studies (1959 - 1962)
Appointments
| 1972-1997 |
Editor, British Tax Review |
| 1980-1982 |
President, Institute (now Chartered Institute) of Taxation (Hon FTII 2002) |
| 1975-1977 |
Member, Meade Committee on the Structure of the Direct Tax System |
| 1977-2001 |
Member, Editorial Board, Simon's Taxes |
| 1980-1984 |
Member, Keith Committee on the Enforcement Powers of the Revenue Departments |
| 1983-1987 |
Chairman, Law Society's Revenue Law Committee |
| 1984- |
Member, Board of Governors, Voluntary Hospital of St Bartholomew |
| 1985-1987 |
Chairman, Addington Society |
| 1985-1986 |
Master, Barbers Company |
| 1986-1990 |
Member of the Council of the Law Society |
| 1987 |
CBE (services to Revenue Law) |
| 1988-1994 |
Member, Executive Committee of the International Fiscal Association (First Vice-President 1993-94); chairman of British Branch 1989-91 |
| 1988 |
Member of Council, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| 1988- |
Visiting professor of Taxation, London School of Economics |
| 1989- |
Member, Board of Trustees, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam (Chairman 1991-2002) |
| 1995- |
Member of the Court of Governors, London School of Economics (Chairman, Audit Committee 1996-) |
| 1995 |
ATAX Cliffbrook Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales |
| 1996 |
Member, Steering Committee, Tax Law Rewrite |
| 1997-1998 |
Master, City of London Solicitors' Company |
| 1997- |
Chairman, Tax Law Review Committee |
| 1997 |
David Tillinghast lecture on international taxation, New York University |