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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…
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,…
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…
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…
The Dekagram: 30th October 2023
Another week, another call for evidence. This time it’s the Justice Committee, seeking evidence to inform its inquiry on the work of the County Court, whether the delay in hearing cases is having a detrimental effect on the administration of justice and on litigants themselves,…
The Dekagram: 31st July 2023
This week we bring you a Dekagram all about costs recoverability, in the contexts of Part 36 and of summary judgment and strike out. The cases on split liability offers just keep coming, with the decision in Mundy v TUI [2023] EWHC 385 (Ch) seeming…
The Dekagram 3rd April 2023
As we hurtle towards Easter next weekend, passing the Equinox, cautiously welcoming Spring (we’ve been caught prematurely celebrating the passing of Winter before), and preparing for the inaugural Deka Easter Egg Hunt, our chick- and bunny-based musings were rudely interrupted by two chillingly worrying decisions…
The Dekagram 17th October 2022
This week has seen interesting developments in the law relating to the recoverability of Spanish penalty interest and in recognition of judgments, as well as the publication of a consultation on proposed alterations to CPR Part 21, most notably in relation to the way child…
Ho v Adelekun [2021] UKSC 43 – set off is a form of enforcement
For some reason QOCS doesn’t stop the court making an order for the claimant to pay the defendant’s costs; it just limits the extent to which the defendant can enforce that order. So what if the case partially succeeds, but partially fails, so that the…
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