Practice Areas
Georgia‘s practice areas are tax, employment, and sports law. She is particularly highly regarded in the field of employment-related taxes, including: employment status; IR35; taxation of damages and termination payments. She represents a range of private clients (media journalists, football clubs, referee associations, radio DJs) as well as HMRC. Notable recent tax cases include: Kickabout Productions Limited v HMRC [2022] EWCA Civ 502, [2022] All ER (D) 02 (May); HMRC v Professional Game Match Officials Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1370; Tottenham Hotspur v HMRC [2018] 4 WLR 17; R (oao Glencore) v HMRC [2017] 4 WLR 213.
An accomplished advocate, she regularly appears in multi-day hearings in employment and tax cases, both led and instructed in her own right.
For more information, please visit https://www.devereuxchambers.co.uk/barristers/profile/georgia-hicks
Career
Called 2012 (Gray’s Inn); Appointed to the Attorney General's Panel of Counsel (C Panel) in 2017. Prizes and awards: The James Hunt Prize for Advocacy (Gray’s Inn 2013); The Ede and Ravenscroft Advocacy Prize (Gray’s Inn 2012); The Norman Tapp Memorial Prize for Excellence in Mooting (Gray’s Inn, 2012).
Professional Memberships
RBA, IFS, ELA, ELBA, PNBA, FRU.
