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.
James Thacker KC and Claire Harden-Frost were instructed to prosecute a girl, now aged 13 years old, for stabbing her mother with a kitchen knife intending to do her really serious harm, attempting to stab two care workers and threatening to kill them. The girl…
Deka Chambers is delighted to announce that the King has appointed Eleanor Mawrey and Jennifer Oborne as Recorders on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Shabana Mahmood MP and the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable the Baroness…
The King has appointed Claire Harden-Frost to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Shabana Mahmood MP, and the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill. The Lady Chief Justice…
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