Career
Sadiya has a broad practice across all areas of direct and indirect tax law. She specialises in advice on complex and usually novel points of law. She frequently litigates high value cases for both taxpayers and HMRC in the tax tribunals and other courts as both sole and lead counsel.
She has a particular interest in excise and customs duties. She also accepts instructions in relation to tax issues which have arisen in other areas of the law, such as ancillary relief proceedings. She also has considerable experience of judicial review proceedings.
Sadiya is: “very much in demand as an advocate, she has a strong sense of what is practical and commercial and a very good manner with clients.”
Before taking silk, Sadiya was a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel and regularly appeared on behalf of HMRC, the National Crime Agency and other government departments. She is happy to accept instructions under the Public Access scheme.
She contributed two chapters to the Pump Court Tax Chambers Tax Litigation Handbook and also lectures regularly on a number of tax-related issues.
Sadiya speaks Urdu (in which she is bilingual), Hindi and Punjabi.
Sadiya’s full profile, including details of her areas of specialism and recent cases, can be found here: Sadiya Choudhury KC | Pump Court Tax Chambers
