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    Anna Leathem joins 3PB from 5SAH

    Anna Leathem (call:2019), a regulatory, professional discipline and criminal barrister, has joined 3PB from 5SAH (5 St Andrew's Hill) in London and will be based from 3PB’s Winchester office. Anna acts on behalf of regulators and registrants. She recently completed a secondment with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and managed a large and varied caseload. She presented back-to-back substantive hearings in complex areas, including sexual misconduct and dishonesty, acted in interim order hearings, reviews...

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    3PB now with Benchers at all 4 Inns of Court

    The election of Mathew Gullick KC as a Bencher (Master of the Bench) of Gray's Inn and Vanessa Meachin KC at Inner Temple (pictured here, left to right) means that 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) now have Benchers with all 4 Inns of Court. Mathew and Vanessa join fellow-Benchers Peter Jennings with Middle Temple, Emma Southern at Lincoln's Inn and 3PB's new Head of Chambers, Liz McGrath KC, also with Inner Temple. A bencher or Master...

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    3PB’s William Webster and Robert Weatherley publish second edition of 'Restrictions on the Use of Land'

    3PB is pleased to announce William Webster and Robert Weatherley, barristers within chambers' Property and Estates team, have released a second edition of their successful book titled Restrictions on the Use of Land, published by Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing Ltd. This informative book comprises of sections on easements, village greens, public rights of way, restrictive covenants, assets of community value and planning enforcement. The authors are grateful to Lord Neuberger (former President of the Supreme Court)...

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    Sarah Clarke appointed as a Judge in the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health Tribunal)

    3PB are delighted to announce that employment and commercial barrister Sarah Clarke has been appointed as a part-time Judge in the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health Tribunal). Sarah was called to the bar in 2005 and is a member of 3PB’s employment and commercial teams at the national chambers. She will maintain her busy practice alongside her new role. To instruct Sarah or contact her, please email her clerk Patrick Robson at...

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    Ben Amunwa in systematic judicial review challenge to asylum accommodation at ex-RAF base Wethersfield

    3PB's public law barrister Ben Amunwa is on the counsel team representing four ex-residents of MDP Wethersfield, near Braintree in Essex, who are taking legal action against the Home Secretary, claiming she acted unlawfully by housing them at the site. The asylum seekers stayed at the former airbase between July 2023, when the site opened, until February 2024, in accommodation described to the High Court by their counsel as "seriously inadequate". The Home Secretary has...

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    Rebecca Farrell helps school secure the dismissal of a six-figure winding up petition presented by landlord

    In a judgment handed down last week by the Insolvency and Companies Court ICC Judge Barber determined that it was appropriate to exercise her discretion and dismiss a petition presented against a company incorporated to run a school (“the Company”). In so doing, the Judge acknowledged that: a. the Company demonstrated a strongly arguable case that the majority of the petition debt did not represent rent arrears, but the purchase price for shares in the...

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    Tom Horder sees two clients acquitted in separate high profile murder trials

    Tom Horder (pictured here), who is co-head of 3PB's Tier 1 Crime team of barristers, has just concluded two back-to-back murder trials, both of which resulted in the acquittal of his clients. The first murder trial involved the widely publicised prosecution of the former Mayor of Winchester for attempting to kill his terminally-ill, 92 year old mother. Whilst the pathology evidence showed no evidence of a deliberate malicious act, in calls to the Police and...

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    Education law newsletter - July 2024

    Jim Hirschmann edits the 11th edition of our education law newsletter, packed full with team news, awards, book launches, events and analysis from our barristers Charlotte Hadfield, Lachlan Wilson, John Friel, Alice de Coverley, Matthew Wyard, Emma Waldron, Alex Leonhardt, Caroline Stone, Mark Green, Sunyana Sharma, Katherine Anderson, Ben Amunwa and Rosa Thomas, to name a few.

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    3PB welcomes top family silk June Venters KC

    3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to welcome leading family silk, June Venters KC, to its 80-strong team of family barristers as a full tenant. June Venters KC is a dual-qualified barrister and solicitor who brings with her over 40 years of experience in family law and children disputes. June was called to the bar in 2017, having been made the first woman solicitor QC in 2006. June is a qualified family mediator, civil...

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    Matthew Wyard appointed chair of the Court of Protection Practitioners Association (CoPPA) West Midlands

    3PB's public law barrister Matthew Wyard has been appointed as the new chair of the West Midlands' Court of Protection Practitioners Association (CoPPA). The West Midlands CoPPA committee was established in 2018 with the aim of bringing together the thriving network of Court of Protection practitioners in the region. Their AGM and a case law update was held last Tuesday 16 July at the Birmingham offices of law firm Irwin Mitchell. The network offers a...

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    3PB becomes a 2024 Bronze Patron of Advocate

    3PB Barristers has become a Bronze Patron of Advocate as a result of successfully raising over £2,500 for the charity at its recent Private Law and Financial Remedies Family Law Conference. The family group made the donation, along with a separate donation for the same amount to Bfriends (the official charity of Birmingham Children’s Trust), drawing on the conference proceeds generated from ticket sales and sponsorship. Advocate matches people in need of legal advice with...

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    3PB Winchester welcomes Bar Council Chair

    3PB’s barristers and staff from our Winchester centre welcomed Samuel Townend KC last week (Friday 12 July) as part of his visit to the Western Circuit. 3PB members were keen to discuss Samuel’s priorities for his term which include addressing chronic underfunding across jurisdictions and the courts estate, promoting diversity, removing unnecessary regulatory burdens on the profession, and tackling inadequate and unequal pay. Samuel was Co-Chair of the Legal Services Committee (LSC) and Chair of...

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