Harry has a practice covering all aspects of Chambers’ specialisms across UK, EU, and international taxation. Before embarking on law, he read Classics and Sanskrit at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won a Double First: wrestling with ancient texts readied him for the UK tax code. He subsequently gained an LLB (First Class) and then an LLM (Distinction), coming top of his cohort in both degrees, before obtaining an MSc in Taxation (Distinction) from Christ Church, Oxford. He has been ranked as a Rising Star in all three tax categories by Legal 500: personal, corporate, and VAT.

He advises and represents both taxpayers and HMRC (having been appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel) in a wide variety of tax-related matters, including commercial litigation that has a ‘tax angle’. Court appearances have included the Court of Appeal, High Court, Upper Tribunal, and First-tier Tax Tribunal, on cases ranging across areas such as tax avoidance schemes, EU corporate tax law, VAT exemptions, and negligence by tax professionals. He has been involved out-of-court in an equally broad spectrum of matters related to tax, such as advice on the UK taxation of foreign trusts, stamp duty land tax, rescission, corporate reorganisations, tax treaties, and employment taxation.

Harry has stayed in touch with the academic world by lecturing part-time at King’s College London on their tax LLM. Outside of law and tax, his interests are largely linguistic and literary. He is familiar with Italian, French, Dutch, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit and knows something of around a dozen others, but he finds friends and family only marginally more willing to talk about languages than tax.

Call to the Bar: 2018 (England); 2021 (Ireland)