Anthony Inglese CB, General Counsel and Solicitor

Anthony trained and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office.

He became Head Lawyer at the Office of Fair Trading in 1991; then Head Lawyer at the Ministry of Defence in 1995; and in 1997 he was appointed Deputy Treasury Solicitor. From 2002 he was Solicitor to the Department of Trade and Industry (later the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) before coming to HM Revenue & Customs in March 2008.

He leads on Professionalism and Ethics for the Government Legal Service and is a Bencher at Gray’s Inn and a member of the Bar Standards Board. He also gives training at the National School of Government. Anthony was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 2008.