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    Alice de Coverley speaks to The Work Couch on neurodiversity at work

    3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist education, equality and public law barrister Alice de Coverley has spoken to RPC Legal’s The Work Couch podcast as part of their neurodiversity mini-series ahead of ADHD awareness month in October. In the first episode of the series, which looks at the lived experience on neurodiversity, Alice joins host Ellie Gelder, alongside Auticon’s Ashlea Cromby and Tracey West and Victoria Othen of RPC Legal. The conversation covers a range...

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    David Parratt KC (Scot) and Poppy Watson feature in the latest issue of ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes Magazine

    3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) David Parratt KC (Scot) and Poppy Watson have contributed to the latest edition of ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes Magazine. Specialist commercial and contractual dispute barrister David Parratt KC (Scot) is featured in TL4’s popular “60-Seconds With” segment, which offers readers an insight into experts in the field with quick-fire questions on their thoughts around and beyond their work. In his interview, published on page 4, David speaks to a range of topics...

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    Hamish Dunlop writes for Family Law about Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA)

    3PB Barrister’s Hamish Dunlop writes for Family Law Week about Financial remedy after a foreign divorce: Is Part III MFPA still true to its purpose? (familylaw.co.uk) Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA) was enacted just over 40 years ago. The legislation empowered English Courts to provide financial relief to parties who had a substantial connection with England & Wales but had divorced abroad. Its clear and admirable intention was to alleviate...

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    Matthew Wyard writes for Special Needs Jungle on Mental Capacity and the Send Tribunal

    Matthew Wyard, public law barrister at 3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) specialising in education, health and social care, has written for Special Needs Jungle on Mental Capacity and the Send Tribunal. In the article Matthew discusses his case of MM v Royal Borough of Greenwich and the First Tier Tribunal’s role in giving health and social care recommendations, as well as how it should address the issue of a young person’s mental capacity. Please click...

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    Berenice Mulvanny's client acquitted of false imprisonment

    3PB Barristers criminal barrister Berenice Mulvanny represented one of two Chichester community rangers who were charged with assault and false imprisonment of a 15 year old boy in Superdrug on 22nd March 2023. This case attracted considerable media attention after a short clip of the incident was published on the internet with allegations the incident was racially motivated. Miss Mulvanny's client detained the youth after being headbutted by the youth who was trying to shoplift....

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    Property barrister Oliver Nunn joins 3PB

    Oliver Nunn (Call: 2011) has joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from KCH Garden Square Chambers. Oliver specialises in real estate disputes and his busy practice covers Landlord and Tenant disputes in the private residential and social housing sectors, agricultural tenancies and commercial leases. Highly rated as a property and social housing barrister by both Chambers UK and Legal 500, Oliver has significant experience representing institutional investors such as housing associations and local authorities in property-related...

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    David Parratt KC (Scot) and Patrick Heneghan to speak at ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes seminar

    3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist commercial and construction law barristers David Parratt KC (Scot) and Patrick Heneghan will be speaking at the upcoming ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes seminar led by 3PB, Bond Solon and Kingsley Napley. The seminar entitled: Expert Witnesses and Opinion Evidence - Reports and Cross-Examination in International Commercial Arbitration’’ will take place on 25 September 2024 at Kingsley Napley offices. During the seminar David and Patrick will be joined by James Glaysher from...

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    Lucy Bill writes for ARAG on fixed recoverable costs in low value claims

    Lucy Bill, specialist personal injury and clinical negligence barrister at 3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), has written for ARAG on fixed recoverable costs in low value clinical negligence claims. In the article Lucy discusses recent FRC reforms partially influenced by the doubling of Claimant costs for low value clinical negligence cases and what this could mean for such cases in the future. Lucy concludes by encouraging practitioners to gain an understanding of the upcoming changes...

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    Rachel Bale delivers interactive training on TOLATA claims

    Rachel Bale, one of 3PB's chancery and property barristers, provided an in-depth seminar to thirty members of law firm Pennington Manches Cooper's Real Estate and Family team on "All matters TOLATA". The interactive seminar involved a comprehensive overview of trusts arising in both domestic and commercial contexts, updates on key precedents such as Hudson v Hathaway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 as well as a review of the court's approach to equitable accounting. Rachel also gave...

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    Tony Bingham chosen for expert panel at Ridgemont's adjudication conference

    3PB (3 Paper Buildings) construction adjudicator and arbitrator Tony Bingham is one on the expert panel at construction and real estate lawyers Ridgemont's adjudication conference on 18 September 2024 in Holborn, London. Thirty years on from the Latham Report, this conference will explore the successes and downsides of the construction sector’s most popular alternative dispute resolution mechanism. Tony is joined by Justin Sullivan (President Elect RICS, CEO Adair Ltd ), Ian Burnell (Head of Commercial,...

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    Nick Robinson's client acquitted of assisting an offender in a 12-week murder and fraud trial

    3PB Barristers' (3 Paper Buildings) criminal defence barrister Nick Robinson, led by Zafar Ali KC of 23ES Chambers, represented Edward Jones who was charged with assisting an offender and fraud. After a 12-week trial at Winchester Crown Court before the Recorder of Winchester HHJ Morris, Edward Jones was unanimously acquitted of both counts. Nick (pictured here) and Zafar were instructed by Philip McCann of Penfold & McPherson Solicitors. To contact Nick Robinson, or to instruct...

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  • Nick Kaplan cautions about the "very wide-ranging implications" of Providence Building v Hexagon Housing

    3PB's specialist construction barrister Nick Kaplan acted as Junior Counsel for Hexagon Housing Association in their recent Court of Appeal case which considered the termination provisions under the JCT form of contract. The Court of Appeal handed down judgment last week in Providence Building Services Ltd v Hexagon Housing Association Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 962, and its decision is likely to come as a significant surprise to many in the industry. The case concerned the...

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