• 3PB’s Family Law Team goes from strength to strength in Chambers & Partners latest edition

      3PB Barristers’ Family Law team has achieved 27 individual rankings (+5 compared with 2024) in this year’s Chambers and Partners edition published today. 23 of our family law barristers are ranked across 5 Circuits: in London, the Midlands, North Eastern, South Eastern and Western. While our team is once again rewarded with Band 1 rankings for both Family Children and Family Finance in the Midlands and retains its Band 2 ranking in Western, our family...

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    • 3PB Family Law confirmed for its excellence in the Legal 500 2025 edition

      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,...

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      Regional law firm SE-Solicitors and Michael George shortlisted for British Family Law Award

      SE-Solicitors, with offices located in the heart of England in Banbury, Bicester and Brackley have been announced as a finalist for The Family Innovator Award in recognition of their new service called Divorce Together™. The British Family Law Awards celebrates excellence in the profession, bringing the family law community together for its biggest night of the year. The Family Law Awards recognises the important, valuable work of family lawyers across the country, and commemorates their...

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      3PB Family Law team promoted to TOP TIER in three Legal 500 categories

      3PB’s Family Law team now tops 3 categories in the Legal 500. The team has been awarded 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. 36 of our family barristers have been awarded a total of 51 rankings...

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    • Chambers and Partners 2023

      Another strong performance for 3PB’s Family Law Team in Chambers & Partners 2023

      3PB Barristers is delighted to report another strong performance by its Family Law team, this time in Chambers and Partners’ 2023 edition published today. With a total of 19 rankings, the team achieves Band 1 in both Family Children and Family Finance in the Midlands and retains its Band 2 ranking in Western. The client and peers feedback received by each of our individual barristers is testament to the depth and wealth of talent available...

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      3PB excels with 73 rankings in Chambers and Partners 2023

      3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) has been awarded a record number of rankings in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 73 accolades for its barristers. The national heavyweight chambers achieves its rankings in London, South Eastern, Western and the Midlands - in 18 categories of law. Earlier this year, 3PB also celebrated its first ranking in Chambers and Partners High Net Worth guide. Click here to view the full results...

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    • Legal 500 2023

      3PB Family team goes from strength to strength in the Legal 500

      3PB Barristers congratulates its Family Law team for another strong set of results in the Legal 500 directory published on Wednesday. The Legal 500 attributed 39 individual rankings to 29 of our barristers across 4 Circuits (in London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western). Our team is seen by clients as the ‘go-to chambers for family work with a good range of practitioners from junior through to silks’... an ‘excellent set of chambers [that] also...

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      3PB triumphs in latest Legal 500 ratings of the UK's best barristers  

      3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), the UK's third largest chambers, is delighted to report its best rankings yet - totalling 130 - in the Legal 500 2023’s edition published last night, up 12% on last year’s 116. The set has achieved its rankings across 5 large UK regions - or Circuits (London, South Eastern, Western, Midlands and Chester and Wales) - in 21 categories of law. Earlier this year, 3PB also celebrated its first rankings...

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      3PB's Michael George speaks at Brewin Dolphin Family Law Dinner

      3PB's specialist family law practitioner Michael George (pictured here), was delighted to be asked to speak at the recent Brewin Dolphin Family Law Dinner. Held at St Anne's College, Oxford, the event was an enjoyable evening of drinks, food and stimulating conversation among peers in the family law community. Michael was one of three speakers who gave thoughtful updates in their field of expertise, with Michael offering insights on variation applications in financial remedy proceedings,...

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      Where to look for buried bones? Michael George discusses business valuations

      3PB's financial remedy specialist Michael George, pictured here, is featured in this month's Counsel magazine alongside Andrew Donaldson head of the Forensic Accounting Team at Dains Accountants. From the world of forensic accountancy, they present a checklist for barristers on valuing a business asset. With analogies relating to dogs and bones, this article really highlights the key areas to consider, including tips such as treating the company accountant's valuation with scepticism and considering quasi-partnerships carefully....

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      Michael George and Aimee Fox offer advice on variation applications in financial remedy proceedings

      Two barristers from 3PB's Financial Remedy Team, Michael George (pictured left) and Aimee Fox (pictured right) - have penned a review on variation applications for the latest issue of Family Law, contrasting the treatment of the applications for variations in income awards with those for non-income/capital provision. The feature reviews two key cases of BT v CU and T v T, offers a postscript on PAG Report 2019 and suggests several lessons learnt from these...

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      Michael George successful in only reported case (T v T) on variation of pension sharing orders

      3PB specialist family finance barrister Michael George (pictured here) successfully represented the wife appellant in the case of T v T (variation of a pension sharing order and underfunded schemes) [2021] EWFC B67 heard by HHJ Hess. The case saw the judge advise that “Family Lawyers would be well advised in the meantime not to tick either boxes in section F”, as per the advice of the PAG report of July 2019 on pension sharing...

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