Our talented team of criminal barristers are well regarded, successful, professional and approachable with members at all levels of seniority both prosecuting and defending across the whole spectrum of criminal law.
We have an experienced team that includes Senior Treasury Counsel and King’s Counsel, leading and junior counsel, many of whom are ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. Members of chambers also frequently train others in advocacy, most recently providing advocacy training to the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in The Hague.
More junior members bring experience of other practice areas, such as inquests and civil actions against the police to their criminal advocacy. This combination of breadth of practice and depth of experience enables us to provide a service to our clients which we consider cannot be matched by more traditional criminal sets.
The team is clerked by David Landa and Lauren Carter, who between them have a wealth of experience, and are highly regarded. They are efficient, professional and approachable and are able to assist you in choosing the right barrister for your case, liaising with you and the courts as the case proceeds.
We regularly appear in high profile, sensitive and difficult cases both in the Crown Court and at Appellate level. These including homicide and serious violence, terrorism, serious organised crime and serious sexual offences such as child abuse and rape. Please see our separate page for our Fraud and Financial Crime work.
All of our members are CPS Panel Advocates, whilst many of our members are on more specialist lists; the CPS Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel, the Serious Crime Group Panel, the Serious Fraud Office Panel, the Regulatory Panel, the Counter Terrorism Panel and the Extradition Panel.
Whilst most of our work is in the Crown Court on the South Eastern Circuit, our members also regularly appear in the Court of Appeal, Administrative/Divisional Court, and Magistrates’ Courts in every part of the country.
We have some wonderful rankings and testimonials for our barristers in the 2025 edition of Legal 500, launched last week. We were delighted that our clerking team also received a great deal of recognition too: We were also thrilled to be shortlisted for Clerking Team…
We’re proud to have retained our top tier set ranking in the new edition of the Legal 500, with 131 barrister rankings across 13 practice areas. We are ranked as top tier in the field of Personal Injury, Industrial Disease and Insurance Fraud – Deka…
Today we are pleased to welcome Megan Bithel-Vaughan and Julia Brechtelsbauer as our newest tenants, following the successful completion of their pupillages. Julia and Megan are accepting instructions across all of Deka’s practice areas in civil, criminal and family law. Please contact our clerks for…
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