Mr Grahame Aldous KC > Deka Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Mr Grahame Aldous KC

020 7832 0500 galdous@dekachambers.com

Work Department

Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence,Travel

Position

Grahame Aldous KC is recommended as a Leader in the Field for Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury and International Claims in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

His cross examination technique has been described in the High Court as ‘a quiet bombshell’, and by an expert witness in the High Court as  ‘thorough, effective, but better than that, beautiful’. He is also an Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) Advanced Advocacy Trainer and Advocacy Teacher-Trainer, a Faculty member of the South Eastern Circuit International Advanced Advocacy Course at Keble College, Oxford. He created the first Advocacy Training programme for the Cypriot Bar Association with the ICCA, and has provided training on the rule of law for the National School  of Judges in Ukraine.

Grahame is a former Vice-Chair of the Bar Council Equality and Diversity Committee, edited the Bar Council Equality and Diversity Code, wrote the first Diversity Awareness Training Toolkit for both Deka Chambers and the Bar Council, and has led Diversity training for various chambers, the Bar Council, Inner Temple and the Judicial College. In Grahame’s time as Head of Chambers, Chambers won PI and Clinical Negligence Set of the Year and topped the Black Solicitors Network league table for diversity practices and procedures.

Career

Called 1979, Silk 2008.

Recorder 2000

CEDR Mediator 2006

Head of Chambers 2008-2013

Advocacy Trainer

Memberships

PNBA, PIBA, APIL Fellow.

Education

LLB Hons (Exon) (1978).

Leisure

Ocean sailing. Raced round Cape Horn in 1990 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Sailed Atlantic on tall ship with disabled/able-bodied crew in the Norton Rose Sail the World Challenge, 2013. RYA Yachtmaster.