The areas of work in which we have particular expertise, experience and excellence.
The areas of work in which we have particular expertise, experience and excellence.
News & Events
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…
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…
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…
This roadshow will cover the very latest update on the new Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime from eminent costs speaker, Professor Dominic Regan with Lucy Lodewyke from Deka Chambers.
The event is ideal for claimant Clinical Negligence litigators, members of AvMA’s Specialist Clinical…
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…
Speaking of John’s retirement, Joint Head of Chambers Jacob Levy KC said:
“It is with some sorrow that we announce the retirement from practice at the Bar of John Foy KC.
John was called in 1969. He has spent his whole professional…
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…
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…
Laura Johnson KC and
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…
