Deka Chambers offers ‘an impressive line up of counsel’, with members regularly sought after to handle complex civil disputes, police misconduct, operational matters, judicial reviews and public inquiries. After successfully representing the police in the Court of Appeal, Andrew Warnock KC appeared before the Supreme Court in Tindall v Thames Valley Police, with the judgment set to clarify whether police services will be held to have assumed a duty of care in tort when attending an accident scene. ’Extremely knowledgeable on the complexities of police and public authority law’,
Paul Stagg KC successfully represented the appellant in The Chief Constable of Essex v Carter; with the judgment clarifying that a custody sergeant exercising their searching powers pursuant to section 54 of PACE only requires a subjective, not reasonable belief, that it is necessary.