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Two of 3PB's well-known education team, specialist barristers Emma Waldron and Alice de Coverley - featured here left to right - have assisted law centre CCLC in their successful legal challenge to get Norfolk County Council to reverse its huge cuts to a boy’s speech therapy. Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) and the two counsel represented H, an 11-year-old boy, who was told he would only receive only 25% of the therapy he had previously,...
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Makhsudul Islam (2013 call), pictured here, becomes a member of 3PB Barristers today - having completed a third six pupillage with the national chambers - and will specialise in personal injury and clinical negligence claims, costs and insolvency/debt recovery. A former PI litigation solicitor, Makhsudul has already built up a busy court practice of trials, interlocutory hearings and drafting. He has a strong following and is regularly instructed by tier 1 defendant insurance law firms...
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3PB criminal defence barrister Nick Robinson (pictured here) represented PS who was sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment for serious sexual offences against two victims. Nick’s written grounds of appeal persuaded the Single Judge Mr Justice Jacobs to grant leave to appeal against sentence. Following oral submissions before the Full Court, Lord Justice Bean, Mr Justice Sweeny and HHJ Griffiths-Jones QC The Recorder of Maidstone, Nick successfully argued that the sentence of 6 years was manifestly...
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3PB specialist intellectual property barrister Mark Wilden (pictured here) represented Devon-based Jo James (trading as Jo James Jewellery) in her successful claim for passing off against competitor Amanda Mitchell (aka Amanda Nimmo), who operates the business “Borabeads”. Mitchell had entered into a consultancy agreement with James in February 2018 and left to set up her own business in September 2018, keeping the same social media accounts but changing their branding to her new “Borabeads” brand. ...
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3PB criminal defence barrister Nick Robinson (pictured here) successfully defended Hongwei Dong, a Chinese doctor and acupuncturist at his trial at Bournemouth Crown Court. Dr Dong was charged with seven counts of sexual assault against a disabled patient, aged in her 30's, between October and December 2018 at We Care Remedy in Commercial Road. Six of the allegations involved penetration. After a trial lasting eight days the jury returned unanimous not guilty verdicts on all counts...
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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...
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3PB specialist family law barrister, Adeo Fraser (pictured here) has been shortlisted for ‘‘barrister of the year’’ at the 2022 Legal Awards by the Birmingham Law Society. Adeo Fraser is a busy family law barrister working from its ever-expanding Birmingham office. He advises and represents various parties on the full range of financial remedies, public and private law children disputes and is known for his pragmatic, robust approach and keen attention to detail, whilst remaining sensitive...
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3PB's crime and regulatory Silk Stephen Harvey QC - well-known for his public access work for businesses - has called the newly-announced Covid Inquiry under Baroness Heather Hallett DBE as "unprecedentedly complex" and "obvious tensions will exist as to the necessary breadth and scope of the Inquiry and the competing need to produce its report within a reasonable period of time. This promises to be an almost irreconcilable problem. Past examples, such as the Bloody...
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Three of 3PB’s specialist public and regulatory law barristers: William Hansen, Matthew Wyard and Naomi Webber, successfully represented the Secretary of State for the Home Department in the decision of OA (Somalia) handed down on 2nd February 2022 following a six-day trial held in June 2021. The appeal was listed to consider whether the country guidance given in MOJ & Ors (Return to Mogadishu) Somalia CG [2014] UKUT 00442 (IAC) continued accurately to summarise the factual...
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Craig Ludlow, Head of 3PB’s Employment & Discrimination law team, analyses the present ability of and limitations on Trade Unions to call industrial action. To read Craig’s article, click here. View Craig Ludlow's profile here. The article will feature in the employment law group’s next monthly newsletter. If you would like to discuss this article further, subscribe to the newsletter or to instruct Craig, please contact his clerk Russell Porter on [email protected].
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3PB public law barrister Matthew Wyard, pictured here, recently acted in a judicial review for the claimant in R(on the application of EP, through her litigation friend MAP) v Norfolk County Council and successfully secured home to school transport for them, as well as an agreed quashing of multiple decisions refusing this support. The claimant, EP, is a disabled child with physical and mental disabilities. At secondary transfer she secured a place at T School....
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The Supreme Court has today, Wednesday 2 February 2022, given judgment refusing the claimants’ appeals in R (O and Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 3, the high-profile appeal concerning the fees charged to children applying to register as British citizens. 3PB's public law and regulatory barrister William Hansen, pictured here, represented the Home Secretary. The Appellants, led by the campaigning group...
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