Michael Sherry - Professional Life

2006 onwards Bar Council* (Representative of Revenue Bar Association)

2007 – 2009 Treasurer, Institute of Chartered Accountants

2006 -2007 Chairman, Gray’s Inn Barristers Cttee

2005 – 2007 Gray’s Inn Management Committee

2004 Lexis Nexis Tax Lawyer of the Year

2003
Chair Chartered Accountants' Business Law Committee;
May 2003 Wyman Debate - Head of Policy Inland Revenue and Head of Policy Customs & Excise; April 2003 Panellist CFE Forum, Brussels; Participated in EU Commission panel of experts on possible use of IAS for a common consolidated corporate tax base, March 2003

2002
April 2002 Panellist at EU Conference at invitation of EU Commission;
UK panel representative invited by the EU Commission to participate in the open conference on harmonisation of the corporate tax base in Europe;
September 2002 Gray's Inn Barristers' Committee.

1999 - 2009
Council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

2000 -2003
A United Kingdom representative to the Federation of European Tax Professionals (CFE)

1999 - 2001
Elected Chairman of the Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for a term of two years.

1996 - 1999
Elected President of the Institute of Indirect Taxation

1994
Michael was asked to sit on an Inland Revenue confidential consultation which resulted in the rewriting of the Settlement provisions (Taxes Act 1988 sections 660A-660G.)

1985 to 1992
Secretary of the Revenue Bar Association, during which time he was much involved in the development of direct access to the Bar.

1984 - 1985

Completed pupillages in Chancery and Tax Chambers before being offered a place at 3 Temple Gardens Tax Chambers from where he has since carried on his independent practice.

1978 - 1983
Joined Ernst & Young's predecessor firm Arthur Young where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1981 and gained admission to the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1982.
He was a founder member of Ernst & Young's oil industry tax group.

1977
Law degree at Oxford in 1977 followed by Bar Finals in 1978.

1974
Scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford.

* Bar Council Committees: European, Equality & Diversity, Education & Training.

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