‘One day my senior clerk said to me “You’re doing a tax case tomorrow”. “But I don’t do tax ” I replied. “You do now!”.’ A small beginning to Melanie Hall KC’s rise to eminence in the tax world.
‘I had recently been appointed by the Attorney General to join a panel of lawyers to represent the government. When I was invited to join the panel I hesitated. But family friends and colleagues said rather forcefully that I’d be mad to turn it down. I was expected to take on anything thrown at me and worked flat out on every aspect of government work covering judicial review employment law commercial disputes immigration human rights procurement and more besides in every court.’
‘In 1993 I was expecting the first of...
