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….
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Deka Chambers is a pre-eminent common law Set. We are proud of the range of market leading expertise we offer across our different practice areas. At the heart of our ethos is celebrating those things that connect us as well as championing our differences. This briefing…
This week the team has been reflecting on a recent Court of Appeal case which turned out to be something of an evidential surprise; and on issues around disability and handicap on the open labour market. Both areas in which uncertainty is to be discouraged,…
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