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Paul Baxendale-Walker is a talk show host, lawyer and an author of legal text books. He is, together with Andrew Thornhill Q.C., the author of The Law and Taxation of Remuneration Trusts (Key Haven, 1997) and also Purpose Trusts (1999, 2009 [2nd ed.]).

Paul Baxendale-Walker was born of Anglo-Brazilian parents, but was orphaned and grew up in a variety of Children's Homes. He took a degree in law at Hertford College of Oxford University and went on to qualify as a barrister and later solicitor. He worked in taxation law at the Bar in Lincoln's Inn and then in various City law firms and Arthur Andersen, before establishing his "Baxendale Walker" practice in Mayfair in 1994.

In 1994, Baxendale-Walker advised on the taking of loans from a pension fund established for the benefit of employees. The borrowers were fraudsters and £2,135,000 went missing. In subsequent civil proceedings, Mr Justice Etherton found Baxendale-Walker was not guilty of dishonesty.In the course of the civil trial it transpired that he had given a reference for an associate of the fraudsters without any proper basis for the factual assertions in the reference. In consequence in 2005 the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal suspended him as a solicitor for three years. The Court of Appeal upheld the decision in 2007.He advises on tax avoidance procedures in the United Kingdom,

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