Deka Chambers is a leading common law set comprising 106 barristers including 16 market leading Silks. Our members offer the range, scale and depth to lead the most complex cases across civil, criminal and family law.
Client service and teamwork are the cornerstones of all that we do and we pride ourselves on meeting our clients’ needs in an ever changing and fast paced legal market.
Laura Johnson KC and James Byrne have secured a multi-million pound settlement for a young woman who suffered horrifying avulsion injuries including the total loss of her scalp and right ear when her ponytail became trapped in factory drill. This was a highly unusual and…
We hope our readers enjoyed the long Easter weekend and grasped the opportunity, as we did, to spend a restful few days away from the coalface. We kept one eye on the courts though, and it’s just as well we did, because last week brought…
On 10 April 2025, the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in Re M (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, providing long awaited guidance for deciding whether and when to grant intermediary assistance to vulnerable parties in family proceedings. An intermediary is someone whose function…
Deka Chambers will be exhibiting at the 35th AvMA Annual Clinical Negligence Conference (ACNC) in Bournemouth on 20th-21st March 2025. The focus of this year’s conference is Cancer and Oncology, whilst also covering many other key medico-legal topics at such an important time for clinical…
Welcome to the Deka Chambers January Briefing where we draw once again upon our multi-disciplinary expertise to deliver a series of articles which examine key themes in litigation. For this edition we consider Best Evidence. Success at trial is often as much about enabling clients…
We were thrilled to win Client Service Set of the Year at the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards, which took place at Old Billingsgate on Thursday, 14th November. We would like to thank all our clients for their ongoing support and for taking the…
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