Deka Chambers

Kerry Nicholson takes instructions across most of Chambers’ core areas, and has a particular interest in clinical negligence, inquests, police law, travel law, personal injury, professional negligence and public law.

She appears in Court regularly, and has appeared on all tracks. She has also been appointed Junior Junior Counsel to the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Prior to joining Chambers, Kerry worked at the Government Legal Department. During that time she worked across a variety of departments, including advising the Home Office on immigration litigation, working in the Attorney General’s Office in the Public Law and Litigation Team, and the Department for Transport working on legislative issues.

Before joining the Bar, Kerry worked as a legal and policy adviser to the independent press at the News Media Association, advising on issues relating to freedom of expression, competition law, election law and commercial issues. She has also worked with the Texas Defender Service in Houston, a legal charity that represents those on or facing death row.

Call: 2015

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.M

• University of Law, BPTC

• Pembroke College, Cambridge, BA in Law