News for: Hamish Dunlop

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

30th September 2022

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...

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

29th September 2022

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...

Resources ahead of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 coming into force on 6 April

1st April 2022

Ahead of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 coming into force on 6 April this year, Hamish Dunlop and Poonam Bhari (pictured here), both senior juniors within 3PB’s family law team, hosted a webinar on the topic, aiming to provide background, context and guidance on the new legislation. The event attracted over one 1000 registrants. Hamish and Poonam have put together a Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 resources page where practitioners who might...

  Welcome to our first Personal Injury law newsletter of 2022 It certainly has been a busy few months, and I am not talking about all the alleged partying at Downing Street but, I am referring to the numerous cases recently reported and relevant to the law of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence. This newsletter analyses some of those cases and also includes guidance on the New Highway Code Provisions. Luke Ashby writes about the...

Another excellent year for our family law team in the Legal Directories

23rd October 2021

3 Paper Buildings (3PB) wish to congratulate its Family Law team for another set of outstanding results in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 directories. Ranked by both directories in the Midlands and Western Circuits, our team has seen both its Matrimonial and Children teams promoted to Band 1 in the Midlands by Chambers and Partners. The Legal 500 attributed 36 individual rankings to 27 of our barristers – including 8 new rankings. Chambers...

Welcome to the 3PB family law newsletter Our fifth family law group newsletter brings you a wealth of 3PB family news including Liz McGrath QC's experience of the last 18 months, heavily marked by Covid 19. We bring you a round up of our March, April and June family law brunch talks with links to our presentations, notes and videos. Our hosts over the time period were Emma Griffiths and Aimee Fox; Liz Hudson and Theresa...

  Welcome to the 3PB family newsletter In our fourth family group newsletter, we bring you a round up of our brunch talks and topical articles, news, and details of our forthcoming events. We hope you enjoy reading this and please do contact us if we can help with further information or enquiries. Details of upcoming events here Lucy Hendry QC enjoys her first days as newly-appointed Silk  Family barrister Lucy Hendry QC started her first day as Queen's Counsel...

3PB family team excels in Legal Directory 2021 results

28th October 2020

Chambers & Partners 2021 UK Bar directory attributed a record 17 barrister rankings to our Family Silks and Junior barristers, across the Midlands, Western, London and South Eastern circuits in its latest edition, covering both finance and children work. The Directory ranked the team in Band 2 in the Midlands and in the Western Circuits. Meanwhile, the Legal 500 elected to rank 24 of our members across the same four circuits. The Directory gave the...

The 3PB family team brings you a round-up of the latest news and a summary of the talks from our recent series of brunch talks. This issue includes contributions from or news about Vanessa Meachin QC, Aimee Fox, Amy Beddis, Gemma Chapman, Emma Harman, Emma Griffiths, Michael George, Antonida Kocharova, James Legg, Hamish Dunlop, Sarah Jennings, Theresa Lim, Adeo Fraser, Nicola Frost, Hannah Bush, and Steven Howard as well as details of our upcoming events....

3PB Barristers’ Hamish Dunlop, a senior clinical negligence barrister, was instructed by law firm Coles Miller and both represented a then-17 year-old student,  after her ovarian cyst operation at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in August 2013 went tragically wrong, throughout her case and the mediation on a no win/no fee basis. The Waterlooville student reached an out-of-court settlement of £815,000 with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust following a mediation in December 2019, ahead of a...

We are delighted to announce that 3PB’s 70-strong family team of barristers, the set’s Head of Finance/Divorce and its clerking team have been shortlisted for three awards at this year’s Family Law Awards. 3PB is shortlisted for Chambers of the Year (Regional) and barrister Hamish Dunlop has been chosen as one of the finalists for Family Law Junior Barrister of the Year. 3PB’s Family clerking team, led by Rob Leonard and Ian Charlton, were shortlisted...

Ten specialist members of 200-strong 3PB Barristers will today be training more than 50 lawyers from leading law firm Irwin Mitchell’s highly-regarded Medical Negligence, Family Law, Court of Protection/Public Law and Travel (Serious Injury) teams at 3PB's Colmore Building offices in Birmingham.