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Bridging the Bar wins a major social responsibility initiative award

16th November 2022

Bridging the Bar, charity partner of 3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) won “Social Responsibility Initiative of the Year” at this year’s Advocate Bar Pro Bono Awards. The awards, which this year took place at Middle Temple Hall earlier this month, are an annual event recognising commitment to pro bono work and access to justice. Bridging the Bar aims to support aspiring barristers who are from statistically underrepresented groups at the Bar, helping to bridge the gap...

Sharan Sanghera appointed Deputy Head of 3PB's Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Teams

14th November 2022

3PB Barristers are delighted to announce the appointment of Sharan Sanghera as Deputy Head of its Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Teams Chambers expresses its many thanks to Luke Ashby who passes on the baton to Sharan following his move to become a District Judge. Both 3PB’s PI and clinical negligence teams attract praises from their clients through the legal directories who acknowledge them as ‘a very helpful, supportive set, with a breadth and depth...

Timelines And Translations: Copyright Protection Of Historical Research in Pasternak v Prescott [2022] EWHC 2695 (Ch)

11th November 2022

3PB’s Mark Wilden discusses the case of Pasternak v Prescott [2022] EWHC 2695 (Ch) and explores how the case illustrates the intricacies of copyright protection of historical research. The case, which saw Anna Pasternak bring copyright infringement proceedings against Lara Prescott for the use of her research (published in 2016) in Prescott’s fictionalised book, “The Secrets We Kept”, published in 2019. Mark recounts the key aspects of the case, which was split into a “selection...

3PB Barristers seeks to recruit established practitioners to join its busy and successful Employment and Discrimination Law Group. The Group receives instructions from many of the UK’s leading law firms and provides consistently high quality advice and advocacy for both individuals and companies (including many household company names). 3PB’s excellent reputation for employment work has been recognised again this year in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.  The Group gained Tier One status in...

Peter Aeberli speaks at Adjudication Society Conference

8th November 2022

Peter Aeberli, 3PB's dual-qualified barrister-architect and expert construction adjudicator, was a guest speaker at last week's 21st annual conference of the Adjudication Society which was held in Edinburgh this year. The busy specialist adjudication conference, headlined as "Adjudication: Where next?", was chaired by Hamish Lal of law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and featured the Rt. Hon Lord Glennie as their keynote speaker. Peter, pictured here, ran a workshop with John Riches from...

Read the latest employment law news and cases analyses from the 3PB Barristers team. packed full of insights and news for employment and discrimination practitioners.

MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd: Force majeure and reasonable endeavours

4th November 2022

Rob Dawson, specialist construction and commercial barrister at 3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) analyses the case of MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd. In the case, which was recently heard by the Court of Appeal, MUR Shipping invoked a force majeure clause against RTI Ltd for failing to comply with the contractual requirement to pay for freight in US Dollars, instead offering payment in Euros. In his analysis, Rob examines the effect that MUR v...

Former 3PB barrister appointed Silk in Australia

3rd November 2022

3PB (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to announce that their former family barrister Eleanor Mallett SC (nee Davies), pictured here, has just been appointed a Silk in Australia. She gets sworn in next week. The barrister, who retains strong links with 3PB, emigrated to Australia in 2013 and is now a member of Svenson Barristers in Melbourne. 3PB counts another UK-Australian qualified barrister Philip Bambagiotti, an international arbitration and construction expert, among its members. Having completed...

Peter Collie announced as speaker for upcoming FIDIC Official International Contract Users' Conference

31st October 2022

3PB's Head of Construction & Engineering Group, Peter Collie - pictured here - will be speaking at the FIDIC Official International Contract Users' Conference in London from 29 – 30 November 2022. Peter Collie is a dual-qualified construction professional and barrister. He has 38 years’ experience in the construction industry and has worked as legal adviser on major projects around the world. According to Legal 500, Peter has acted in several international multimillion-pound disputes and...

3PB’s Nicole Bollard appointed as part-time Deputy District Judge

31st October 2022

3PB (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to announce that intellectual property and commercial litigation barrister Nicole Bollard (pictured here) has been appointed by the Lord Chief Justice as a part-time Deputy District Judge (DDJ) on the Western Circuit to preside on civil cases. Nicole is a specialist intellectual property (IP) expert who is regularly instructed in cases in the High Court, IPEC and the UKIPO. Nicole’s practice covers all areas of IP and she has...

Nicola Frost writes on pre-nuptial agreements and the '28-Day Rule'

30th October 2022

3PB's specialist family law barrister Nicola Frost (pictured here), is the author of A Practical Guide to Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements. She has recently written for the Family Law Journal on whether the court should automatically disregard agreements that fail to adhere to the '28-Day Rule'. The article explores the parameters of the colloquially known '28-Day Rule', alongside relevant case law and considers the effect of not abiding by this 'rule'. The article was first published...

“Massive overdisclosure” ordered in departure from business & property courts disclosure regime

28th October 2022

3PB intellectual property barrister Mark Wilden analyses Genius Sports Technologies Ltd v Soft Construct (Malta) Ltd [2022] EWHC 2637 (Ch). In the case, which took place earlier this month, the judge – Mr Justice Marcus Smith – departed from the Business & Property Courts disclosure regime, instead ordering the adoption of “massive overdisclosure”. Mark examines the judgment and how rather than burdening litigants and causing “eyeball review”, technology means that “this judgment gives something of...