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The Dekagram: 12th May 2025
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
The Dekagram: 24th February 2025
Following on from chambers’ highly successful and well attended conference on accidents and deaths abroad on 13th February, Thomas Yarrow has been thinking about the extraterritorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights, a question which should be of concern to all cross border…
Dekinar: Annual Case Law Update 2024
In our annual case law update, Conor Kennedy, Ella Davis and Thomas Yarrow take you on a tour of the key cases of 2024, considering the most interesting and significant cases of the year in the areas of personal injury, clinical negligence and travel law….
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…
The Dekagram: 11th November 2024
This week’s Dekagram is all about cancellations and delays – what happens when a package holiday is cancelled, what happens when a flight is delayed due to the behaviour of a passenger. Both sets of circumstances are giving rise to increasing numbers of claims, in…
The Dekagram: 17th June 2024
This week’s Dekagram features a case involving an optimistic English claimant seeking to have his claim against an English defendant determined by the Spanish courts. It will be of interest to anyone advising on or litigating claims with a foreign element arising out of consumer…
Dekinar: Understanding the New Fixed Costs Regime for Cross-Border Claims
In this webinar, Thomas Yarrow and Anirudh Mandagere take a look at the new fixed costs regime with a specific eye on its impacts on litigation with a cross-border element. View the slides – Understanding the New Fixed Costs Regime for Cross-Border Claims
Medical Negligence as a novus actus interveniens
To paraphrase Lady Bracknell, to pay for one catastrophic injury may be regarded as a misfortune; to pay for the consequences of subsequent negligent medical treatment looks like carelessness. All personal injury practitioners will be familiar with a variant on this theme – the man…
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,…
Attorney General appoints Thomas Yarrow as Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel)
Thomas Yarrow has been appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. The appointment will commence on Friday 1st September 2023 and runs for a period of 5 years. The Attorney General panels of counsel undertake civil and EU work…
The Dekagram: 30th May 2023
Regular readers will already be aware of the team’s concerns about the enthusiastic embrace amongst some judges (cough – Sir Geoffrey Vos MR – cough) of artificial intelligence in a legal context. Naturally the use of intelligence of any variety in the courts of England…
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