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.
In this week’s edition Linda Nelson examines how and when to serve surveillance evidence, and how and when to respond to it; and John Schmitt asks whether it’s necessary to have a claim form re-sealed if it’s been amended prior to service, and urges caution…
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
This week Ben Rodgers relays two tales from the coalface, both relating to applications to resile from admissions. Readers will be interested to know that in both cases the court applied the balance of prejudice test with the result that the defendants’ applications were refused….
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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