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Mr Vikram Sachdeva KC
Position
Barrister specialising in n Administrative & Public Law, Civil Liberties & Human Rights, Healthcare, Commercial Law, Regulatory & Disciplinary, Tax, Media Law, and Costs & Litigation Funding. He is known for creatively pushing the boundaries of the law, and has appeared in a number of important cases in all of these fields up to the Supreme Court. He is often brought in for high profile cases outside his primary fields such as the divorce of the Ruler of Dubai. Cases include: he Supreme Court cases of Tigere (student loans and the right to education), Aintree v James (definition of “futile” medical treatment), NHS v Y (whether court application needed to withdraw CANH if family agrees); and JB v A Local Authority (whether capacity to engage in sexual relations requires an understanding that the other person must consent throughout). He also acted in the Skripal case (whether blood samples could be taken for the OPCW); the Interchange Fee Litigation (whether parties had settled after expiry of the relevant period); advice during the VW and Mercedes Emissions litigation; Smith v Lancashire (declaration of incompatibility against the Fatal Accidents Act leading to a change in the legislation in causing the right to bereavement damages to be extended to cohabitees of 2 years); Ashya King (whether proton radiotherapy should be performed in Czech Republic); Tafida Raqeeb (whether breach of TFEU article 56 not to permit travel to Italy for medical treatment); and the reinterpretation of the Mitchell principles concerning relief against sanction in Denton v White.
Career
Called 1998, Middle Temple; formerly Junior Counsel to the Crown (C, B and A Panels); formerly tutor in Criminal, Tort, and Administrative Law at various colleges in Oxford and Cambridge; medically-qualified (and worked as a doctor); previously Times Lawyer of the Week; formerly Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Bar Association and of Court of Protection Bar Association; member of Independent Review of Administrative Law; Bencher, Middle Temple; Deputy High Court Judge (Kings’s Bench) .
Languages
French, Hindi.
Memberships
ALBA, COMBAR, Chancery Bar Association, JUSTICE (Council Member), ARDL
Education
Oundle School; Clare College, Cambridge (1992 BA; 1996 MA); New College, Oxford (1993 BCL; 1996 BM BCh).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1The Court of Protection team at 39 Essex Chambers has expertise in representing local authorities, NHS trusts, the official solicitor, and litigation friends at all levels in the Court of Protection in serious medical treatment, health and welfare matters. Vikram Sachdeva KC, in the case Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust v T, successfully represented a hospital trust seeking permission to force-feed a child suffering from OCD who refused nutrition. Fenella Morris KC represented Shropshire County Council in TRR and others v Dundee Council and Shropshire CC, a case concerning the division of responsibility for making and funding applications for deprivation of liberty for the individuals ordinarily resident in Scotland but habitually resident in England and Wales. Turning to the set’s juniors, Adam Fullwood represented a Clinical Commissioning Group in An ICB v RN, a case concerning if the COVID-19 vaccination should be administered to a 22-year-old man with a learning disability, despite the opposition of his mother.
London Bar > Costs
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3With considerable expertise in costs issues arising from group litigation, 39 Essex Chambers’ well established costs practice sees its members regularly appearing before the SCCO, High Court, CAT, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court; as well as a strong international arbitration presence, especially in the Middle East and Asia. Simon Browne KC represented the claimant in AKC v Barking and Redbridge NHS Trust, a significant case before the Court of Appeal concerning electronic bills of costs that do not identify individual fee earners. Vikram Sachdeva KC acted for the appellant in Bushby v Galazi, a High Court case which developed on the Court of Appeal’s guidance in Glover v Baker concerning the impact of litigation friends on costs responsibilities. In RPB v HMRC, Nicola Greaney KC continues to represent HMRC in a significant case for after-the-event premiums recoverability in publication and privacy proceedings.