- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Civil Fraud
- Clinical Negligence & Healthcare
- Commercial, Chancery & Property
- Court of Protection
- Credit Hire
- Crime
- Family Law
- Financial Crime
- Inquests & Inquiries
- Personal Injury
- Police Law
- Professional Negligence
- Public Sector & Human Rights
- Regulatory & Disciplinary
- Travel & Cross Border Claims
Personal Injury Briefing: October 2021
In May of this year Robert Parkin and Henk Soede authored an extremely popular briefing on the Occupiers Liability Act 1957. In this companion briefing Andrew Spencer considers the question of who is an occupier and Robert Parkin provides a useful analysis of the scope…
Medical Law Briefing: August 2021
This article considers the important clinical negligence decisions over the first half of 2021. In summary: i. There have been three important reported cases involving fundamental dishonesty pleadings by NHS trusts. This is rapidly becoming a defining area of medical negligence law and all practitioners…
Personal Injury Briefing: July 2021
From Exodus to the Animals Act 1971: horses, cattle and dogs If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. ……
Personal Injury and Medical Law Briefing: July 2021
Capacity is an important issue that can arise in cases of all values and complexities. Sometimes the case is straightforward and low value but the injured party has pre-existing vulnerabilities affecting their ability to give instructions and make decisions. In other cases the claimant has…
Professional Negligence and Clinical Negligence Briefing – June 2021
On 18th June the Supreme Court handed down judgments in Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton and Khan v Meadows. In this joint briefing we consider the judgments from both a professional negligence and clinical negligence perspective. Rehabilitation of the “Mountaineer’s Knee” Manchester Building Society…
Medical Law Briefing – June 2021
An Introduction to Capacity: Part I Welcome to another edition of the 1 Chancery Lane Clinical Negligence team briefing. In this edition Ella Davis and Susanna Bennett take a look at the procedural and legal framework relating to mental capacity. Capacity arises in a significant…
Personal Injury Briefing – May 2021
S 2(2). of the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 sets out the persuasively simple proposition that an occupier owes a duty to take such care as is reasonable to see that its visitors are reasonably safe when using the premises for the purposes for which they…
TATLA Newsletter – May 2021
Special Briefing: Foreign Rules in the English Courts In the post-Brexit era the courts of England and Wales have been faced with a tsunami of claims issued on the cusp of Brexit Day. A number of recent developments raise some intriguing questions about the interface…
Personal Injury Briefing – January 2021
This briefing considers two recent cases that will be of interest to injury practitioners. The first, Head v Culver Heating Limited is an interesting decision in which the Court of Appeal considers the difference between loss of earnings generated by work and loss of income…
Briefing – Covid: Practice and Procedure
Although the start of 2021 has not been as auspicious as we would have wished, Happy New Year from all at 1 Chancery Lane. Despite everyone’s hopes that 2021 would start more favourably than 2020 ended it seems restrictions to protect the public from the…
Medical Law Briefing – December 2020
To round off what has been a rather odd 2020, we bring you the Medical Law annual legal update, courtesy of Ella Davis and David Thomson. It has been a busy year for reported cases in this area and so we hope you find this…
Inquests Briefing – November 2020
There have been a number of recent developments of interest to those who practice in the coroners’ courts. As a result the 1 Chancery Lane Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence groups have joined forces to provide an update for your assistance. Henk Soede considers the…
Subscribe to our mailing list
Deka Chambers: 5 Norwich Street, London EC4A 1DR
- T +44 (0)20 7832 0500
- E clerks@dekachambers.com
- DX LDE 439
