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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…
In the second of our annual case law updates, Esther Pounder, Andrew Spencer, Ed Lamb, John Schmitt and Amelia Katz take you on a whistlestop tour of key cases of 2022.
They look at the most interesting and significant cases of the…
Ian Clarke is speaking at this week’s Association of Police Lawyers Autumn Conference, which this year is being hosted by Northumbria Police Force.
The conference is taking place in Newcastle on 19th – 21st October and attracts delegates from 43 UK wide…
We are delighted to announce that Deka Chambers and 66 members are ranked in 14 practice areas in Legal 500.
Deka Chambers is ranked as a Top Tier Set for:
Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud: ‘A very good set with a…
In their webinar yesterday Sarah Prager and Ian Clarke looked at GDPR, data protection and privacy issues, bringing you right up to date with recent developments in the law relating to data protection and misuse of information.
If you missed it, you…
The Court of Appeal have allowed the Chief Constable’s appeal against the Master’s refusal to strike out the claim against him. The case concerned whether police officers who attended a road traffic accident caused by ice owed a duty of care to…
A little over two years ago I wrote an article about a then-unreported decision of the Court of Appeal which decided that it was possible for the Court in a QOCS case to set-off an order for costs in the defendant’s favour…
At the Old Bailey this morning Wayne Couzens pleaded guilty to the murder of Sarah Everard. Last month he had pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard. Tom Little QC is prosecuting this case. The sentencing hearing will take…