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3PB Barristers shortlisted as 'Client Service Set of the Year'

1st September 2022

3PB Barristers has been shortlisted in the category of 'Client Services Set of the Year' in the Chambers UK Bar awards 2022. Good luck to all of those nominated! The awards recognise a Chambers pre-eminence in the UK. They also reflect achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service. They honour the work of sets and individuals across the country based on the research for the...

3PB welcomes top children and domestic violence barrister Laura Scott

28th August 2022

3 Paper Buildings (3PB) has welcomed family barrister Laura Scott(2001 call), pictured here, to its now 83-strong team of family law counsel. Laura practises exclusively in children and domestic violence law and has over 20 years' experience representing parents, grandparents, children, guardians, extended family members and local authorities in all aspects of the law relating to children. Formerly at Fourteen Chambers and Tanfield Chambers in London, Laura now lives in the Midlands and will practise...

Aimee Fox co-authors briefing on Children Act proceedings and children with SEND

28th August 2022

3PB’s specialist family and education law barrister Aimee Fox (pictured here), alongside law firm Anthony Collins’ associate solicitor Kadie Bennett, have co-authored a briefing in Education Law Monitor examining how parents can minimise the impact of separation on children with SEND. According to the latest figures from Statista, 2020 saw 103,592 divorces granted in England and Wales. Separation for parents of children with SEND can present additional complications and worries. The stresses and strains of...

3PB backs Criminal Bar Association's indefinite strike action in September

23rd August 2022

Yesterday, 80% of the members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) voted to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in England and Wales from 5 September. This overwhelming vote to escalate the action - started in April - will see criminal barristers refusing to take on publicly funded criminal defence cases. It is clear that the Government’s response remains insufficient to deal with the current crisis in the criminal justice system. This view is endorsed...

Philip Bambagiotti tackles the issues for in-house lawyers of client privilege in international arbitration

9th August 2022

3PB's Philip Bambagiotti, a joint qualified Australia and UK barrister specialising in construction and international arbitration, has a prolific practice in China and the wider SE Asian region and was guest speaker at the International Arbitration Insights series of seminars in July. Philip, who routinely advises in-house counsel on their client privilege issues and wider commercial litigation disputes said, "In the international context, what one may understand as legal privilege is a ‘slippery’ & amorphous...

Welcome to August's newsletter Welcome to 3PB’s Education Law Team Newsletter. You will find in this edition the recording of our webinar on the new school exclusions, suspensions and pupil movement guidance, published by the Department for Education on 13 July 2022. We are delighted to announce important 3PB wins in the Supreme Court (Part-time music teacher wins landmark case on calculating holiday pay for ‘part-year’ workers) and in the Upper Tribunal (Upper Tribunal confirms...

Tom Evans successful in reducing sentence in Court of Appeal

5th August 2022

3PB criminal barrister Tom Evans, pictured here, was successful in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) yesterday after the Court allowed an appeal in the case of R v Birol. Tom's client entered a guilty plea to falsely imprisoning his daughter on the second day of his trial. In the summer of 2021, he had travelled with his wife and elder daughter to Bournemouth where they collectively enticed their younger daughter into their car and...

The past 30 days have provided much for the employment law world to write about, starting with the success of 3PB’s Mathew Gullick QC, Lachlan Wilson and Naomi Webber in the Supreme Court in The Harper Trust v Brazel case; and Mathew Gullick QC earning the accolade of the Times’ “Lawyer of the Week” in the process.

A day in the life of a junior clerk with Natalie Bryan

2nd August 2022

Natalie Bryan joined 3PB back in November 2019 as an apprentice, and following her successful completion of her apprenticeship, is now a Practice Assistant dealing with enquiries and diary management. Natalie has been shortlisted as Junior Clerk of the Year at the 2022 UK Bar awards from Legal 500. Natalie recently featured in a Her Bar blog about her role as a junior clerk with 3PB.  Her Bar was founded in 2021 by pupil barristers Nasreen...

Jonathan Underhill secures acquittal in case concerning multiple allegations of same sex sexual assault

2nd August 2022

3PB criminal barrister Jonathan Underhill (pictured here) has secured acquittal for his client in a case concerned with multiple allegations of same sex sexual assault. Jonathan’s client, a young woman of good character, was acquitted after a fully contested trial of four charges of Sexual assault. The offences were alleged to have taken place in a small bedroom in sight of an independent eyewitness. Further, the offences were said to have taken place against the...

Upper Tribunal confirms appeals can be brought against review decisions of the SEN Tribunal for Wales

2nd August 2022

3PB education and public law barrister Matthew Wyard (pictured here) has succeeded in an important Upper Tribunal appeal in which the tribunal has confirmed that appeals can be brought against review decisions of the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales. The decision was published yesterday 1 August. The appeal in AB v Newport City Council [2022] UKUT 190 (AAC) concerned a decision by the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales (“SENTW”) to uphold Newport City...

3PB Partners with Bridging the Bar

29th July 2022

3PB has recently become a Bronze partner of Bridging the Bar. Bridging the Bar (“BTB”) is a charity, founded in July 2020, that aims to support aspiring barristers from a range of statistically underrepresented groups at the Bar. BTB exists to bridge the gap between students from non-traditional backgrounds and the skills, experience and networks required to develop a career at the Bar. This is achieved by providing the beneficiaries with work experience opportunities, access...