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Deka Chambers Participates in BVL Student Mooting Competition
Barristers from Deka Chambers were delighted to support this year’s Big Voice London (“BVL”) mooting competition by acting as judges on 5 March 2026. The competition is open to students at A-level (or equivalent) at non-fee-paying schools. The scheme pairs participants with graduates studying on…
Max Melsa appears for Local Authority in Re: T(A Child) (Non-Agency Adoption)
The unusual case involved two siblings who were placed in separate placements, and whether one of the siblings should be placed with the other, or remain in her foster placement. As McKendrick J found, this was one of the limited cases where siblings were not…
Kyah Mufti, Thomas Clarke and Max Melsa’s update of The Advocate’s Gateway Toolkit published
The updated version of “Toolkit 13 – Vulnerable Witnesses in the Family Courts” is now available online and can be accessed here. It also includes a new Crib Sheet for ease of access. The toolkit provides guidance and advice as to how to approach proceedings where…
Deka Briefing: Best Evidence
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…
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…
The Dekagram: 8th July 2024
This week the team has taken time out of its celebrations marking Matthew Chapman KC and Sarah Prager KC’s victories in the latest cases on Spanish penalty interest and the Montreal Convention respectively, to consider what can be done where a claimant refuses to undergo…
Max Melsa appears in Court of Appeal in Re D (Children: Interim Care Order: Hair Strand Testing) [2024] EWCA Civ 498
Max Melsa represented the children, through their Children’s Guardian, in the first case to reach the Court of Appeal specifically dealing with the interpretation of Hair-Strand Tests in care proceedings. The appeal was made by the mother against the interim separation of three children from…
The Dekagram: 26th June 2023
This week the team’s been glued to the telly, and in particular SupremeCourtTV, following the progress of Griffiths v TUI as it wends towards its conclusion. Truth be told, we’ve been mildly surprised by the lack of fanfare around the hearing, given that the decision…
The Dekagram 30th January 2023
In this week’s Dekagram we consider recent cases which raise some urgent questions around how the QOCS and whiplash tariff systems are working. And speaking of urgent questions, we encourage readers to get their questions on health tourism and cross border clinical negligence ready –…
Max Melsa represents Bedfordshire Police in Inquest regarding death of police officer at Luton Airport
Max Melsa was instructed by Bedfordshire Police, who were an Interested Party in the Inquest regarding the death of police officer Sean Duignan on 31st May 2021. Click the below link for the media coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-63620922
Violent Offender Orders – their underuse and the potential consequences of their underuse
Max Melsa was instructed to represent Bedfordshire Police as an Interested Party in the Inquest of Harper Denton and comments upon the role of Violent Offender Orders If you have never come across Violent Offender Orders (‘VOOs’), then you can be forgiven. However, they are…
Max Melsa successfully obtains judgment for Claimant following Defendant raising automatism
Max Melsa represented the Claimant in a claim for personal injury within which the Defendant raised the unusual defence of automatism. The defence, which requires the Defendant to show on the balance of probabilities that the Defendant’s actions were wholly involuntary, was raised following a…
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