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Tax & Insolvency

Our tax and insolvency barristers combine specialist tax knowledge with advocacy experience in both civil and criminal courts to bring an advantage to all types of tax and insolvency hearing.

Members of Red Lion’s Business Crime & Fraud team regularly act for both the taxpayer and HMRC in a wide range of matters. These cases often have International dimensions, jurisdictional issues and hold reputational risks.Our tax and insolvency expertise includes:

  • defending and prosecuting cases involving cheating the Revenue, conspiracy to defraud, corporate facilitation, bondhouse diversion frauds, tax evasion schemes and sideways loss relief, MTIC VAT frauds, duty evasion, excise fraud, film credit frauds, pension tax relief fraud and corporation tax fraud
  • appearing in the First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) and Upper Tribunals
  • defending and prosecuting cases involving Insolvency Act and Companies Act offences
  • defending and prosecuting cases involving Fraud Act offences
  • defending and prosecuting cases involving trading when insolvent
  • defending and prosecuting cases involving fraudulent trading.

Red Lion Chambers currently has two Standing Counsel to the Department for Business, who advise on policy, cases and investigations into corporate and individual insolvency: Rebecca Chalkley and Cameron Brown.

  • “Red Lion Chambers has an excellent reputation for financial crime work, and houses a strong bench of senior and junior barristers who have experience of acting in complex and high-profile cases. Members act for both the prosecution and the defence, and are regularly instructed in international investigations. Cases involving serious allegations of bribery, fraud and corruption are a key area of strength for the set.”

    Chambers UK (2022)

  • “Red Lion Chambers utilises its ‘great strength and depth’ to defend and prosecute high-profile corporate crime cases involving allegations of fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption. The set is also highly experienced in all stages of domestic and cross-border investigations into suspected offences.”

    Legal 500 (2022)