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Clinical Negligence Briefing: April 2024

Welcome to the Spring Clinical Negligence Briefing. It has been a busy start to 2024 for Deka’s clinical negligence team. We are delighted that two members of the team were appointed as silks in March 2024 (Paul Stagg KC and Edward Lamb KC) and we…

Briefings
22/04/2024

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…

Articles
15/04/2024

Dekinar Recording: Maternity & Birth Injury Claims – Legal Update

With the announcement of the Spring Budget in March 2024 the Government has pledged to invest £35 million to boost maternity safety and improve maternity services across England, and a further £9 million to prevent avoidable brain injuries in childbirth. NHS Resolution reports that maternity-related…

News
12/04/2024

Dekinar: Maternity and Birth Injury Claims: Legal Update

With the announcement of the Spring Budget in March 2024 the Government has pledged to invest £35 million to boost maternity safety and improve maternity services across England, and a further £9 million to prevent avoidable brain injuries in childbirth. NHS Resolution reports that maternity-related…

Webinars
Webinar: 11/04/2024

Laura Elfield speaking at AvMA Annual Clinical Negligence Conference

The 34th Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) Clinical Negligence Conference is taking place on 21-22 March 2024. This year’s programme has a focus on Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Laura Elfield will be speaking on the afternoon of 22nd March, alongside Dr Wael Agur, on Gynaecological Mesh…

News
20/03/2024

Judgment handed down in Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services & Others (2024)

The Court of Appeal has today handed down its long-awaited judgment in Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services & Others (2024). It held, by a majority of 2 to 1, that a person who deliberately and unlawfully kills whilst insane is not barred by the defence…

News
20/02/2024

Deka Briefing: Abuse

Deka Chambers is a pre-eminent common law Set. We have leading practitioners in civil, family and criminal law. We consider this diversity a real strength in the service we are able to offer our clients. Legal problems often straddle more than one field of law….

Briefings
25/01/2024

3 New Silks for Deka Chambers

It is with great pleasure that Deka Chambers announces that Paul Stagg, James Thacker and Edward Lamb have been appointed as King’s Counsel in the Ministry of Justice’s new Silk appointments published today, 19th January 2024. Paul was called to the Bar in 1994 and…

News
19/01/2024

Dekinar: Secondary Victim Claims: where are we now?

Laura Johnson KC and Phil Barnes, National Head of Medical Negligence at Shoosmiths LLP discuss the case of Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Foundation Trust. Laura and Phil acted for the claimants in the lead case of Paul. They discuss their experience of litigating a…

Webinars
Webinar: 18/01/2024

Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024]

Supreme Court restricts secondary victim claims to those who witness an accident but removes the requirements that a claimant must witness a “sudden shock to the nervous system” caused by a “horrifying” event In a majority decision (with Lord Burrows dissenting) the Supreme Court has…

Articles, News
11/01/2024

Dekinar Recording: Annual Case Law Update

In yesterday’s annual case law update, Rob Horner, Abigail Stamp and Andrew Spencer took attendees on a tour of the key cases of 2023. They considered the most interesting and significant cases of the year in the areas of travel law, personal injury and clinical…

News
15/12/2023

Dekinar: Evidence – Witness and Expert

Updates and Practice on Parts 32 and 35 In this webinar, Esther Pounder and John Schmitt consider both witness and expert evidence, covering the following points. View the slides – Evidence: Witness and Expert

Webinars
Webinar: 03/11/2023

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