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3PB’s barrister Oliver Nunn, alongside Dani Gotts St. Clair and Emma Shiels, supported by Georgia Coleyshaw, delivered an advocacy workshop for the University of Nottingham Bar Society. In advance of the workshop, students were given an exercise requiring them to prepare and deliver closing submissions at the end of a road traffic accident liability trial. Students received interactive, one-on-one feedback in a group setting, using the Hampel method to help develop their advocacy skills and...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) is pleased to announce that crime and regulatory barrister Ben Thompson, based in Bournemouth, has become a full tenant of the 270-barrister national chambers after successfully completing his probationary tenancy. Ben is a busy and versatile practitioner on the Western Circuit, having joined 3PB from the CPS where he had completed his pupillage. As a prosecutor, Ben has been entrusted with serious cases, recently securing a just sentence in a controlling...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) are pleased to announce that our second six pupils - James, Emily and Victoria (pictured left to right) - are now on their feet and accepting instructions in their own cases. All started their pupillages last October. James Hume, a former Fleet Air Arm Officer, will now accept instructions in commercial litigation, property and construction disputes. Emily Hayward, who was a paralegal in Slaughter and May’s Disputes and Investigation team, will...
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The three new pupil barristers starting their twelve-month pupillages with 3PB in April 2025, pictured left to right, are: Liam O'Shaughnessy, who worked as a senior HR professional for over 25 years, will be focusing on employment and discrimination; former Court of Appeal judicial assistant, journalist and sinophile Simon Haywood who will be focusing on civil litigation particularly commercial, property and costs; and former Burges Salmon paralegal and employment litigator at Croner and Direct Line...
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Welcome to our employment law team’s March newsletter, edited by Joseph England, featuring analysis from Joseph, Gareth Graham, Colin McDevitt and Matthew Curtis on the following cases:
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- Kau Media Group Ltd v Hart [2025] EWHC 553 (KB)
- Gourlay v West Dunbartonshire Council [2025] EAT 29
- W v Highways England and others, 18th February 2025, [2025] EAT 18, Lord Fairley
- Kostrova v McDermott International INC and CB&I UK Ltd, 13th March 2025, [2025] EAT 35, Lord Fairley
- Kamphues v Venator Materials UK Ltd, 19th March 2025, [2025] EAT 30, HHJ Tayler
- Kinch v Compassion in World Farming International, 26th March 2025, [2025] EAT 41, Lord Fairley
- Impact Recruitment Services Ltd v Korpysa [2025] EAT 22 -
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed fourteen new members to its Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP). Among the new appointees is Gareth Graham, who has extensive experience of chairing sports disciplinary hearings (including for the Rugby Football Union, World Rugby, The Football Association, the British Horseracing Authority and British Cycling), as well as expertise in employment and sports law generally, with a particular focus on whistleblowing, safeguarding and discrimination cases. The CDP is...
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3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) civil law pupil barrister Emily Hayward is speaking today (25 March) at a panel event on "The Bar for International Students", hosted by International Future Barrister Mentorship. The event, which will take place at the Inner Temple and on Zoom, will offer prospective pupils the opportunity to hear from barristers with international backgrounds about their journeys to the Bar in the UK and what advice they would offer having taken the leap....
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Barristers and staff from 3PB’s six national offices joined together today to celebrate the new silk status of Jodie Mittell KC (pictured here outside 3 Paper Buildings in London with her clerks Stuart Pringle and Lee Giles). Liz McGrath KC, Head of Chambers at 3PB, said ‘‘I would like to congratulate Jodie on her well-deserved appointment to Kings Counsel. This is a very special day for Jodie and us, and to be able to come...
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3PB's property, housing and agricultural specialist Oliver Nunn has successfully obtained a £174,000 freezing injunction in a high-value equine law dispute. Frequently instructed in disputes over horses, after sales, loans and veterinary treatments, Oliver was instructed by specialist equine solicitor Rebecca Stojak who is the Head of the Equine Law Team at Geldards LLP. Oliver represented an aspiring dressage rider who entered into an agreement to lease a horse at the rate of £30,000 per...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is pleased to welcome two property law barristers Kinza Wahid and Emma Shiels (pictured left to right) to our 40-strong national Property and Estates Group. Both Kinza and Emma will be based in our Birmingham office, but practicing nationwide. Kinza Wahid (call 2021) has a successful practice across the full range of property law, and those matters which cross over into traditional chancery areas. She is regularly instructed in disputes involving; landlord and tenant...
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Naomi Webber edits the 12th edition of our education law newsletter featuring analysis from our barristers Alice de Coverley, Ben Amunwa, Olivia McGonigle, Naomi Webber and Alex Leonhardt. We look back at our team's 2nd education law conference in February and highlight recent involvement of our barristers in important cases and upcoming events.
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Tom Horder, joint head of 3PB’s crime and regulatory crime team, represented VFS (Southampton) Limited, a manufacturer of custom works vehicles in their successful appeal against sentence. At first instance the company was fined £600,000 after entering an early guilty plea to an offence under s.2 of HSWA 1974. The prosecution arose from a 2018 incident on their assembly line. Instructed by Cliff Morris of law firm Paris Smith, Tom (pictured here) argued on appeal...
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