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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU

Sylvia Elwes

LL.B., Barrister, FCCA, CTA (Fellow), Senior Lecturer in Law

Sylvia Elwes has been a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Bedfordshire for a number of years. She is an associate lecturer at the Open University, and has been an examiner for the Chartered Institute of Taxation Her main teaching areas are EU Law, the Law of Personal Property and Revenue Law. She also lectures taxation to groups of accounting students.

She enjoys the technical complexities of Revenue Law, and how the rules can be used to avoid or minimise the tax burden. While the subject is constantly changing, it is an area that concerns most of the population of the UK. Students find that the knowledge gained in the tax modules has importance to real life.

Sylvia graduated from the University of Bristol with a 2:1 law degree and went on to gain three professional qualifications. She is a barrister and Member of Gray’s Inn, as well as being a certified accountant and a member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. She is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. She gained admittance to the latter Institution by its acceptance of her thesis on “VAT and European Community Law with an emphasis on current developments”.

She has written extensively in professional journals, including Criminal Law Review, the Solicitors Journal and New Law Journal on the law side, and Taxation, Tax Adviser and the Tax Journal on the tax side. She has also written a book “VAT and Europe” published by Monitor Press, and a paper accepted for internal publication by Arthur Anderson on “The Taxation of loan relationships”.

Sylvia has given presentations to firms of solicitors in London and Luton on a variety of legal topics, including “Recent developments in Consumer law”, “Stamp Duty Land Tax” and “Lasting Powers of Attorney under the Mental Capacity Act 2005”.

She has four children, and one grandson, and she lives in the country. She enjoys growing all her own fruit and vegetables, and producing free-range eggs. She likes literature, both classic and contemporary, and would be pleased to recommend you some good reads.

Research Interests

Taxation, EU Law.

Research Supervision

Sylvia is happy to supervise research students in the areas of taxation.

Teaching Expertise

Taxation, EU law, personal property.

Selected Publications

  • Elwes, S., “Work by Unqualified Staff” (2000) Solicitors Journal Vol. 144 440
  • Elwes, S., “Tracing Property through a Mixed Fund” (2000) Business Law Review December (2000) Vol. 21 285
  • Elwes, S., “Transactions Defrauding Creditors” (2000) Insolvency Law and Practice Vol. 17 10
  • Elwes, S. and Clutterbuck, R., “Clearly Composite –Or not?” (2001) Taxation 22 March 608
  • Elwes, S., ”Croner-CCH Group-“Limits to Professional Privilege” (2001) Tax Adviser Journal of the Chartered Institute of Taxation 32
  • Elwes, S., “Charges -Fixed or Floating?” (2001) Insolvency Law and Practice Vol. 17 221
  • Elwes, S., “Bankruptcy and Disability Payments” (2002) Business Law Review Vol. 23 9
  • Elwes, S., ‘International Football Hooliganism” (2002) Business Law Review Feb. 1-5
  • Elwes, S., “Vulnerable Sureties” (2002) Current Law Week
  • Elwes, S., “How Far does the Education Exemption go?” (2002) Taxation Adviser
  • Elwes, S., “The Right to Refuse Disclosure of Documents” (2002) Insolvency Law and Practice Vol. 18 189
  • Elwes, S., “When are Foreign Monies Remitted to the UK?” (2003) Tax Adviser 38
  • Elwes, S., “Capital or Revenue?-A perennial question” (2003) Taxation Vol. 150 3899
  • Elwes, S., “Gifts from abroad?” (2003) Tax Adviser April 35
  • Elwes, S., “What amounts to Conversion?” (2003) Current Law Week 26 July
  • Elwes, S., “Property Which vests in the Trustee in Bankruptcy” (2004) Insolvency Law and Practice Vol. 20, 5
  • Elwes, S., “The Deductibility of Input Tax” (2004) Tax Adviser June, 16
  • Elwes, S., “Calculating Group Relief” (2004)Tax Adviser September, 18
  • Elwes, S., “The Meaning of the Group Relief Provisions”” (2004)Tax Adviser December, 22
  • Elwes, S., “Limitations on presenting a petition for the winding up of a company” (2005) Insolvency Law Vol. 21, 42
  • Elwes, S., “VAT and medical services” (2005) Tax Adviser May, 24
  • Elwes, S., “Solicitors and a conflict of interest” (2005) Business Law Vol. 26, 113
  • Elwes, S., “Consumer Credit Act 1974 and Social Policy” (2005) Business Law Review December
  • Elwes, S., “VAT recovery for DIY converters” (2006) Tax Adviser January, 14

Contact Details

Room H309
Vicarage Street
T: 01582 743141
E: Sylvia.Elwes@beds.ac.uk

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