Sarah Prager KC will be chairing the APIL’s International Injuries Conference in the afternoon, and Matthew Chapman KC and Conor Kennedy will be speaking. The conference takes place in London on the 28th of November 2025. Matthew’s talk is titled: Stade de France Judgment Conor’s…
This week Andrew Spencer recounts a quite extraordinary tale, as does Francesca O’Neill, making Julia Brechtelsbauer’s contribution to the Dekagram seem positively sane in comparison. Fundamental Dishonesty – Fundamentally Disastrous Outcome North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust v Kae Burnell-Chambers, Tipples J, 14th October…
Deka Chambers is taking part in the London Legal Support Trust and the Access to Justice Foundation’s Great Legal Bake, raising money in aid of free legal advice charities. Our winning cake was baked by Megan Bithel-Vaughan who retained the title from last year. Many…
In the aftermath of the recent decisions in cross border claims, Sarah Prager KC and Julia Brechtelsbauer discuss: We welcome audience participation; if you have any questions for Sarah and Julia, please either let us have them in advance, or come armed with your trickiest local standards issues for…
This week we have a bumper issue dealing with a number of crucial developments: Andrew Spencer considers an oft-neglected aspect of local standards evidence, Julia Brechtelsbauer brings us up to date on the Quest for Videolink Evidence, and Megan Bithel-Vaughan examines the recent guidance of…
Julia Brechtelsbauer, instructed by Brittany Mooney of Bedfordshire Police Legal Services, represented the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police and successfully struck out human rights claim in the High Court pleaded at £6,000,000. Introduction The Claimant alleged “failure to investigate 2 crimes” from 2024 and 2023….
This week Julia Brechtelsbauer grapples with the continuing issues around taking evidence from abroad, and examines a case which illustrates well the problems, both legal and practical, that can arise when dealing with witnesses located in another jurisdiction. Meanwhile, Andrew Spencer asks whether UK law…
Last month saw an additional twist in the litigation currently under way in the English courts between pilots and their employers resulting from what the pilots claim to have been exposure to toxic fumes in aircraft cockpits. The trial in the case is expected to…
This week the team, in a shameless demonstration of our multilingualism, brings you an article on Covid refund claims rendered in no fewer than three languages. And to cap it all the subject of the article is a claim in which Deka’s own Tom Yarrow…
Join us at The Hoxton, Holborn on Thursday, 13th February 2025 for our half day conference on Accidents and Deaths Abroad. We are delighted that we will be joined by Sir Peter Thornton KC, Former Chief Coroner of England and Wales, for a talk on…
Welcome to the Deka Chambers January Briefing where we draw once again upon our multi-disciplinary expertise to deliver a series of articles which examine key themes in litigation. For this edition we consider Best Evidence. Success at trial is often as much about enabling clients…
This week we welcome our two newest tenants, Julia Brechtelsbauer and Megan Bithel-Vaughan, to the Dekagram family. Working collaboratively, as you have come to expect from Deka Chambers, they have produced a joint article on where the burden of proof lies in quality complaint cases,…
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