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The Dekagram: 15th December 2025
This year we have an important announcement: the winner of the latest Deka Competition! Scott Rigby has the honour of selecting the Dekiri for next year – a twist on the classic Prohibition cocktail, the Bees Knees, made with gin, lemon and honey. It is…
Virtual Pupillage Event 2025 – Recording
On 19 November 2025, Deka Chambers hosted its online pupillage information event. In this webinar attendees heard about pupillage at Deka Chambers, a common law (mixed practice) set of chambers based in London. Three Deka Chambers barristers, Eleanor Mawrey, Ben Rodgers and Madeleine Miller, explained…
The Dekagram: 6th October 2025
This week we welcome Bethany Hutchison to the Dekagram family; in her first Dekagram article she asks what parties need to do if they wish to apply for a stay of proceedings on medical grounds, and how best to resist such an application. Meanwhile Ben…
The Dekagram: 21st July 2025
This week Ben Rodgers considers how airline pilots are employed (or not); whilst Sarah Prager discusses a recent decision on discontinuance and costs. Casenote : Lutz v. Ryanair [2025] EWCA Civ 849 Aviation and shipping employers often use third party recruitment agencies to recruit crew. There…
The Dekagram: 6th May 2025
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 marks International Men’s Day 2024
For this year’s International Men’s Day, three barristers – Simon Trigger, Ben Rodgers, and Thomas Yarrow – share with Conor Kennedy their experiences of balancing work at the self-employed bar with life as a parent. CK: What are the main advantages (and disadvantages) of the…
Deka hosts Virtual Pupillage Event
On 13 November 2024, Deka Chambers hosted its online pupillage information event. Attendees heard from Louise McCullough about the pupillage application process and what we look for in applicants. Madeleine Miller spoke about the pupillage year and her experience of a mix of areas of…
Virtual Pupillage Open Event
Join us at this free virtual event to hear from a number of speakers about Pupillage at Deka Chambers and get the chance to have your questions answered. A range of barristers, both new and more established, will provide an overview of pupillage at Deka,…
The Dekagram: 4th November 2024
This week on Halloween we scared ourselves by reading judges’ comments on the late provision of skeleton arguments and on when and if remote hearings are appropriate; and considered a case involving Thomas Cook Airlines, reaching out from beyond the grave and seeking orders concerning…
Work Accidents at Sea 3rd Edition is published
The 3rd edition of Work Accidents at Sea has been published, written by Grahame Aldous KC and Linda Nelson, and contributing author Ben Rodgers. Work Accidents at Sea provides an introduction to the language, law, procedure and practicalities of claims relating to work accidents at…
The Dekagram: 10th June 2024
Glover & Anor v Fluid Structural Engineers & Technical Designers Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 1257 (TCC) – a case highlighting the dangers of getting involved in the preparation of experts’ joint statements This judgment follows an application by the claimants within proceedings seeking permission to replace…
The Dekagram: 26th February 2024
Further confusion reigns this week over additional fees charged to air passengers for de-packaged services ancillary to flights. This time the spotlight is on Wizz Air, the Hungarian low-cost airline. Wizz Air appears to have as many as four different options for flight check-in, each…
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