Ingrid Simler QC leaves Devereux for High Court bench

Devereux has announced that Head of Chambers, Ingrid Simler QC, has been appointed to the High Court bench. She has been assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division.

Acting Head of Chambers, Bruce Carr QC comments “We are very proud of and pleased for Ingrid. She has been a great friend and colleague of all of us for many years. We are delighted for her but at the same time will miss her presence and contribution to Chambers.”

Ingrid Simler QC is a leading silk, recognised for her expertise across a range of areas including Employment Law, Tax Litigation, Public and Administrative Law, and Human Rights. Her employment practice covers all aspects of employment law, from high value discrimination cases to injunctions restraining team moves. Ingrid has expertise in handling individual and corporate domicile and residence litigation for tax purposes, both for and against tax-payers. She has been involved in most (if not all) individual domicile and residence cases taken by HMRC over the last decade, and most recently appeared for HMRC in the Supreme Court in the landmark case concerning HMRC’s published guidance, IR20: Gaines-Cooper & Davies & James v HMRC [2011] UKSC 47.

The Ministry of Justice announcement was as follows: “The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Miss Ingrid Ann Simler, Q.C., to be a Justice of the High Court with effect from 28 October 2013 on the retitrement of Mr. Justice Henriques.

The Lord Chief Justice will assign Miss Simler to the Queen’s Bench Division.”