Ikeni is a tenant at Kings Chambers Associates, with 5+ years PQE, practising in Commercial Chancery, Commercial and Residential Property, Regulatory Public Law, and Personal Injury. He is regularly instructed to draft pleadings, advise, and appear in possession claims. He is an experienced personal injury lawyer who has regularly appeared in Fast Track trials, Small Claims, Stage 3s, credit hire claims, infant settlements, and interim applications. He has assisted in a range of cases involving chancery, public, commercial, EU, competition, and sports law: advising and drafting for matters in the Court of Justice of the European Union, Court of Appeal, High Court, and Employment Tribunal. Ikeni also has advocacy experience in the Crown and Magistrates Courts. He is client-friendly, costs conscious, able to grasp the interests involved in a dispute, and always willing to discuss issues of law, strategy, and/or procedure.

Other experience

Before coming to the bar, Ikeni completed an internship at a Tier 1 (Chambers and Partners) commercial firm in Southern Africa. He acted as research assistant in EU law at the University of Oxford and organised two conferences for the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He also worked on human rights projects: visiting East Timor to assess the progress of the truth and reconciliation process and Special Court; conducting preliminary research for the Human Dignity Trust; and assisting in drafting standard operating procedures for the police in Sierra Leone. He has volunteered as an experienced representative with the Free Representation Unit as well as Oxfam’s Lawyers Against Poverty..

Ikeni has substantial experience acting in Personal Injury and related insurance matters for both claimants and defendants in his own right. His experience includes:
establishing a claim for personal injury incurred on a construction site in an independent contractor claim under s.2(4)(b) of the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 and common law negligence. establishing and resisting Fast Track claims for personal injury in relation to an RTA. He has frequently negotiated quantum.