Patrick Boch
He is an experienced advocate, appearing regularly before the courts and tribunals. He is adept at incisive witness examination and has also acted as an expert witness on UK tax law in a foreign jurisdiction. He is recommended in the Legal500 directory for Personal Tax.
As an ex-HMRC lawyer, he has considerable knowledge of how HMRC operate and approach litigation. His LL.M. dissertation (which achieved a first class mark) was on the GAAR and he has extensive experience of dealing with avoidance matters.
Apart from tax, he has a practice in insolvency (especially in HMRC-led petitions), traditional chancery (particularly probate), and general commercial law.
He is dual qualified as an Indian advocate, and can advise on Indian tax law and the legal and commercial environment in India more generally. Having completed his LL.M. in Denmark, and being fluent in Danish, he is also able to offer insight on matters with a Scandinavian connection.
Patrick Boch practices in all areas of revenue law, as well as traditional chancery (particularly probate and bankruptcy) and general commercial law.
- Legal Directory 2024 Bar Rankings
- Upper Tribunal decision - Shinelock Ltd v HMRC
- Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2022
- Judgement – RE: Thursford Enterprises
- Judgement – RE: Thursford Enterprises
- Patrick Boch and Ross Birkbeck appointed to C Panel
- Successful costs application against HMRC
- Congratulations to Patrick Boch on the Avery Jones Medal
- Patrick Boch Recently Acted as an Expert Witness
- Old Square Tax Chambers ranked as a leading set
- Revenue Powers
- London Legal Walk 2019
- Free Seminar: Taxation of Trusts
- Tax Planning for 2019 – Key Haven Publications Ltd
- Key Haven 2024 - PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2023
- UK Property Taxation: What You Need to Know Now
- Taxation of Trusts
- Revenue Powers
- HMRC’s attack on Tax Avoidance
- Key Haven Publications 2022 – 40th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Sixteen-Speaker
- Key Haven Publications 2021 – 39th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Fourteen-Speaker Residential Seminar
- Key Haven Tax Planning Webinar
- KEY HAVEN PUBLICATIONS LTD – PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2019
- LL.B. (Hons) Law, University of Buckingham (2007)
- Cand. jur. (LL.M.), University of Copenhagen (2015)
- Fluent: Danish, Polish and Hindi
- Intermediate: Spanish and German
- Revenue Bar Association
- Chancery Bar Association
- The Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown
Patrick Boch is regulated by the Bar Standards Board