‘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...
