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3PB’s employment law team is celebrating another strong set of results in Chambers and Partners’ 2025 edition published today, with a total of 18 individual rankings for 16 of our employment barristers in London, Western, South Eastern and the Midlands Circuits While clients’ comments on our individual barristers once again testify to their dedication and excellence, our clerking team, led by Russell Porter, also attracts much praise and is seen as 'absolutely brilliant and going...

3PB congratulates its Public and Regulatory Law team for earning 3 new rankings in this year’s Chambers and Partners edition. To its existing 2 accolades for Administrative and Public Law, the team has added 2 rankings for Professional Discipline and one ranking for Inquests and Public Inquiries. Head of Group Mathew Gullick KC commented: “This significant gain in Chambers and Partners’ latest publication reflects both new and existing members of our national set of chambers,...

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...

3PB achieves 96 rankings in Chambers and Partners 2025 edition

17th October 2024

3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) breaks another record in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 96 rankings (81 last year) achieved by 80 of its barristers. The national set is rewarded with accolades in 21 areas of law, in the London Bar as well as in the North Eastern, South Eastern, Western and Midlands Circuits and exceptional comments for its expertise and service delivery. Click here to view the full...

3PB welcomes three new 12-month pupil barristers to its 270-strong barrister ranks

16th October 2024

The three pupils starting their twelve-month pupillages, pictured left to right from the top, are: former Fleet Air Arm Officer James Hume who is focused on commercial litigation and arbitration as well as property and construction law; former paralegal in Slaughter and May’s Disputes and Investigation team Emily Hayward is focusing on civil law disputes, particularly commercial, property and personal injury and Victoria Holland, a former human rights paralegal with law firm Hickman & Rose,...

Oliver Nunn delivers advocacy skills workshop at Universities

15th October 2024

3PB specialist property law barrister Oliver Nunn delivered a workshop at the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham on advocacy skills.  Oliver delivers this workshop once a year and they are known as ‘Oliver’s College of Knowledge: Mooting 101’. The talk is designed to give undergraduates and new advocates all the skills and practical knowledge they need as they embark on mooting at university. Oliver is an Honorary Associate Professor at Leicester who...

Family barrister Frida Dahlqvist moves to 3PB

14th October 2024

Frida Dahlqvist (2014 call) has moved to 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from KCH Garden Square Chambers in Nottingham/Leicester where she is a much-requested family barrister with a strong practice in care proceedings and private law children disputes. Frida is also renowned as a highly effective cross-examiner and attended FLBA’s “Advocacy and the Vulnerable” training course. In care proceedings, Frida Dahlqvist is frequently instructed by local authorities but also has extensive experience of representing parents and...

October Employment Law Newsletter Out Now

11th October 2024

Colin McDevitt edits our October 2024 employment law newsletter, announcing the arrival of Rachel Best KC as an associated member and celebrating our team’s outstanding performance in the 2025 edition of the Legal 500.

Our newsletter includes analysis from Colin McDevitt, Mark Green, Robin Pickard and Alex Leonhardt of the following cases:
- Tesco Stores Ltd v USDAW [2024] UKSC 28
- South Gloucestershire Council v Ms Hundal [2024] EAT 140
- Treadwell v Barton Turns Development Limited [2024] EAT 137
- AB v University of East London and others [2024] EAT 157

Sunyana Sharma represents Coastguard in beach drowning inquest

10th October 2024

3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) Sunyana Sharma, represents His Majesty’s Coastguard (‘HMCG’) in a 2-week inquest following the tragic deaths of Joseph Abbess and Sunnah Khan who drowned whilst swimming between the red and yellow flags at Bournemouth beach on 31 May 2023 following a flash rip current.  The coroner considered the risk assessments carried out by the Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Borough Council (‘BCP’) and the RNLI prior to the accident, the cause and...

June Venters KC honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award by Surrey Law Society

8th October 2024

Family barrister and silk June Venters KC won the SLS (Surrey Law Society) Lifetime Achievement Award last week at SLS' annual awards evening at G Live in Guildford. June is one of the foremost lawyers in the UK in public law child care, family law, international child abduction and crime and has acted in many of the most serious cases within these fields of law. Headline sponsored by wealth management business Evelyn Partners, the SLS...

Poppy Watson speaks to The Bar Council about the Anglo - Dutch Exchange 2024

8th October 2024

3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) commercial and chancery barrister Poppy Watson has spoken to The Bar Council on the Anglo- Dutch Exchange 2024. In the article Poppy discusses why she applied for the Anglo – Dutch Exchange. Poppy also mentioned what interesting differences she noticed between the Dutch and the English and Welsh legal systems. Poppy concludes by sharing her highlights of the trip including how the Exchange has inspired her in her own practice....

Rachel Best KC joins three highly rated practice teams at 3PB

7th October 2024

3 Paper Buildings (3PB) is delighted to announce that leading barrister and silk Rachel Best KC (2006 call) has joined chambers as an associate member. Rachel specialises in employment and discrimination disputes, judicial reviews, inquests and personal injury cases. She was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2006, the Bar of Ireland in 2021 and was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2022. She was promoted to Silk in 2024....