Michael Sherry Professional Life
2013
Admitted to The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
2012
April 2012 Appointed Head of Chambers at Temple Tax Chambers
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.
2001
Elected to the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for a term of three years.
2000
Appointed* a United Kingdom representative to the Federation of European Tax Professionals (CFE)
1999
Elected Chairman of the Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for a term of two years.
1996
Elected President of the Institute of Indirect Taxation, a position he held until early 1999
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
* Reappointed 2001, 2002, 2003