News & Events
News & Events
Robert Rhodes QC was the first speaker at the joint Revenue Bar Association / Criminal Bar Association seminar on tax evasion, held earlier this week. Robert spoke about the Revenue’s approach to tax evasion, and how it had become much more prosecution-oriented than in the 10 years when he had been Standing Counsel to the Inland Revenue before taking silk. He discussed the civil and criminal paths that the Revenue took, and their consequences. He also dealt with the Revenue disclosure facilities for errant taxpayers, including the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility which, over its 6 years of existence, raised billions of pounds for the Revenue. He also warned of the government’s substantial toughening of approach in this year’s Finance Bill: Strengthening…
News 11 Apr, 2016
Outer Temple Chambers barristers recently participated in the 2016 COMBAR North American Meeting, which was held in Venice, Italy, from Thursday 31 March to Friday 1 April 2016. Robert Rhodes QC was part of the “Bribery & Corruption” panel session attended by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas where Robert spoke about “adequate procedures” under the Bribery Act 2010. He emphasised that the important point of the session was to highlight that the detailed provisions of the UK Bribery Act cover any business that is incorporated in the UK or that carries on business in the UK, even if it is incorporated abroad. Robert also demonstrated that it is absolutely vital that all such businesses have an understanding of their…
News 3 Apr, 2016
Robert Rhodes QC has been given the 2016 Corporate International Magazine Global Award of “UK-China Arbitration Barrister of the Year in England”. Robert is on the panel of arbitrators and mediators of several Far Eastern arbitration and mediation bodies.
News 15 Jan, 2016
Robert Rhodes QC is appointed as an Arbitrator to the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s Global Panel of Distinguished Neutrals.
News 18 Mar, 2014
The FRC has appointed Robert Rhodes QC to chair a Tribunal that will decide a complaint against the large accountancy firm, Mazars LLP, and one of its partners, arising from pension advice given in 2007. Robert Rhodes QC previously chaired the Tribunal that heard complaints in the proceedings brought by the Accountancy Investigation and Discipline Board relating to the collapse of the publicly quoted company Mayflower Plc.
News 22 Oct, 2013
Robert Rhodes QC has been appointed to the Panel of Arbitrators of the Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei. Robert already holds mediation and arbitration appointments with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the Lang Fang Arbitration Commission, and the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing.
News 3 Oct, 2013
Robert Rhodes QC, complementing his earlier appointment To the Panel of Advisors of the Financial Arbitration and ADR Center of the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing; and To the Panel of Mediators of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade has been appointed a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
News 13 May, 2013
Robert Rhodes QC has been appointed to the Panel of Mediators of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT). Founded in 1987, is the first and the largest professional mediation organisation in China. Its mediations involve commercial organisations from all over the world.
News 28 Jan, 2013
Robert Rhodes QC was interviewed with the former Security Minister, Lady Neville-Jones, as the lead story on the BBC News Channel, concerning the Government’s present options about Abu Qatada.
News 15 Nov, 2012
Robert Rhodes QC was interviewed by Al-Jazeera’s English channel about the Barclays scandal regarding the fixing of Libor and Euribor rates, which resulted in regulatory fines of nearly £300M on the bank.
News 27 Jun, 2012
