Centre for Tax Law Workshop

 

University of Cambridge, Centre for Tax Law Programme for Workshop on Friday 22nd January The Old Kitchens, Queens’ College Cambridge Speaker: The Hon Justice Tony Pagone, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria The Hon Justice Tony Pagone, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, will talk about avoidance issues in Australia. Appointed a judge for the first time in 2001 he resigned in 2002 to become Special Counsel to the Australian Tax Office. After that he returned to practice but was appointed a judge for the second time in 2007. For many years he combined a leading role in tax practice with part time teaching, particularly giving advanced courses on the LLM programmes at the University of Melbourne (where he is a Professorial Fellow). As special Counsel he appeared for the Australian tax office in some of the leading cases on avoidance in which the office was successful.  Among the cases he will be considering are Commissioner of Taxation v Hart [2004] HCA 26, Commissioner…v Consolidated Press Holdings [2001] HCA 32, Commissioner v Spotless Services [1996] 186 CLR 404 and FCT v Peabody [1993-94] 181 CLR 361       This Workshop will take place at Queens' College Cambridge and will run from 10.10am (Participants will need to register beforehand) until 3.45pm
To book for this workshop please contact the Centre for Tax Law - ctl@law.cam.ac.uk by Monday 18th January.