3PB Family Law confirmed for its excellence in the Legal 500 2025 edition
1st October 2024
3PB’s family law team remains at the top of its league in the Legal 500 2025 edition, achieving top tier in the Midlands for Family: children and domestic violence and for Family: divorce and financial remedy as well as top tier in the Western circuit for Family: children and domestic violence. The Western team’s family finance barristers are awarded tier 2.
The team has achieved a total of 56 rankings across 4 Circuits (in London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western), including 6 new rankings.
Our clients and peers “continue to recognise 3PB as an ‘impressively strong set’ for family law work”. “3PB maintains its reputation as the premier divorce and financial remedy set”. Seen as “‘a very large multi-circuit and multi-centre set with a good reputation’ that offers advice on all areas of family law”, “3PB is a ‘strong set with breadth of knowledge and skills nationwide’ and specific expertise in financial remedy cases.” The set “offers support across all areas of public and private children’s law proceedings”.
Head of 3PB Family Team Vanessa Meachin KC commented: “I congratulate and thank all our barristers for the work they accomplish tirelessly with our clients, supported by our clerks. I am grateful to our clients for taking the time to feedback in the Legal 500’s research process.”
Profiles for our 39 ranked barristers can be found here Elizabeth McGrath KC, Vanessa Meachin KC, Lucy Hendry KC, Hamish Dunlop (head of family finance), Emma Griffiths (head of children), Nicola Martin, Lawrence Messling, Sarah O’Hara, Elisabeth Hudson, Michael George, Elaine Strachan, Nicola Brown, Poonam Bhari, Stephen Abberley, Louise Worton, Laura Scott, Roger Thomas, Gemma Chapman, Emma Harman, Nathalie Bull, Oliver Thorne, Emma Southern, Aimee Fox, Mark Elliott, Steven Howard, Alex Hodge, Sarah Jennings, Nicola Frost, Amy Beddis, Lucy Clayton, Andrew Duncan, Amy Lush, Adeo Fraser, Charles Hogan, Eleanor Marsh, Luke Nelson, Kellie Salter, Sam Pentony, and Rachel Bloxwich.
Click here to view the team’s full results.
For more information or to instruct our barristers, please contact Family Practice Directors Rob Leonard and Ian Charlton.
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