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Recognition for Deka Chambers’ barristers in Best Lawyers 2025
Congratulations to our eleven barristers who have been recognised by their peers in The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom 2025. Jacob Levy KC, Simon Readhead KC, Edward Faulks KC, Graham Aldous KC, Edward Bishop KC, Andrew Warnock KC, Matthew Chapman KC, Sarah Prager KC,…
Clyde & Co and Deka Chambers Successfully Defend Assumption of Responsibility Claim Against Online Holiday Rental Platform
Online booking platforms are an everyday part of modern life; marketplaces which permit consumers to browse, and companies to display competitors, allow for convenience and consumer choice. However, can a booking agent displaying accommodation be liable for any injury suffered by a customer through the…
The Dekagram: 2nd April 2024
Rainer Hughes Solicitors v Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co Ltd, Karadag, Ilieva [2024] EWHC 585 (KB) In a recent case Martin Spencer J dismissed an appeal from His Honour Judge Monty KC, who (it was held) had been entitled to order a firm of solicitors to…
The Dekagram: 25th March 2024
Chilton v Payne [2024] EWHC 451 (Admin) In a case which will be of interest to all practitioners undertaking claims arising out of cosmetic surgery, Henshaw J recently dismissed an appeal in a claim founded on allegedly poorly provided aftercare following abdominoplasty. The Facts The…
The Dekagram: 4th March 2024
Enforcement of Judgments Pending Appeal: Motorola Solutions v Hytera Communications [2024] EWHC 149 (Comm) As anticipated, Brexit has made the lives of cross border practitioners far more interesting, and no more so than in connection with enforcement. After all, there’s little point in battling to…
The Dekagram: 12th February 2024
Service and Jurisdiction: Lunn v Antarctic Logistics Centre International [2023] EWHC 2856 (KB) In a recent case it fell to Master Thornett to apply the rules on extension of time for service and for challenging jurisdiction, albeit in an unusual factual context. The facts The…
The Dekagram: 11th December 2023
This week’s Dekagram focusses on the European Commission’s proposals for reforming the Package Travel Directive from which the UK’s Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 derived. Whilst not strictly speaking directly relevant to the UK’s forthcoming reforms, the EU’s decisionmaking around such thorny…
The Dekagram: 20th November 2023
We were interested to see this week that Vos MR has publicly accepted the recommendations of the Civil Justice Council’s costs review; and where better to start than in increasing guideline hourly rates? The current rates, which date from 2021, will be uplifted on 1st…
The Dekagram: 6th November 2023
As you know, we keep a weather eye on what’s going on in other jurisdictions; often developments internationally can inform and sometimes even influence our own domestic law. We wonder whether the recent increase in the personal injury discount rate from -0.25% to 1% might…
Dekinar Recording: Is it Obvious? The duty to warn in package holiday cases
In yesterday’s webinar Sarah Prager KC and Andrew Spencer discussed the law on duty to warn of obvious risks, encompassing: If you missed it, you can view it here
The Dekagram: 16th October 2023
This week’s Dekagram examines whether, and when, service of a claim form can be validly effected on an erroneous address; Lucy Lodewyke looks at an unusual case in which service under CPR Part 6.15 was authorised. Meanwhile, the presumption that foreign law is similar to…
The Dekagram: 2nd October 2023
This week’s Dekagram is all about jurisdiction and in particular the application of the post-Brexit rules on service outside the jurisdiction. As anticipated, Brexit has led to an avalanche of contested applications around jurisdiction, some of them relating to proceedings issued prior to Exit Day,…
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