• 3PB Property and Estates Team celebrated in the latest Legal 500 edition

    3PB is delighted to announce a total of 15 rankings for its property, estates and chancery specialists in the Legal 500 2025 edition. The team retains its Tier 2 ranking for Property and Construction in South Eastern; and its Tier 3 ranking for Property and Construction in Western. New rankings have been gained for social housing; agricultural property work; and property and construction work. The team is acknowledged as "‘an excellent set’ with ‘a number of excellent...

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  • 3PB Criminal and Regulatory Law Team’s strong showing in the Legal 500’s 2025 edition

    3PB’s Criminal Law team has retained its top tier ranking in the Legal 500 for Crime (General and Fraud) in the Western Circuit and welcomes three new rankings: 14 of its 28 practitioners are now ranked by the Legal 500. In our clients’ words, “3PB is ‘a strong set with barristers of every level and specialism’ and continues to handle cases across a wide spectrum of serious criminal cases, spanning murders, large-scale drug conspiracies, sexual...

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  • 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Team shines in the Legal 500 2025

    Described in the Legal 500’s latest edition as “‘a fantastic set’ that assists both claimants and defendants with all kinds of personal injury claims, from catastrophic injury to industrial disease”; with “‘excellent counsel at the top with good experience’, offering expertise across the full spectrum of clinical negligence litigation”, 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team has much to celebrate. Achieving a total of 16 rankings across 4 Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and...

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  • 3PB’s Commercial Law Group and Intellectual Property Team achieve great recognition in this year’s Legal 500 rankings

    3PB is delighted to share that its Commercial group has earned 4 new rankings in this year's Legal 500 edition, achieving a total of 16 rankings for 11 of our barristers across the areas of Commercial Litigation, Company and Insolvency, Intellectual Property and Professional Negligence in London, South Eastern and Western. With 3 of its barristers ranked for Professional Negligence in Western (+2 compared with 2024), the team now has a Tier 2 ranking and...

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    Kellie Salter speaking at Community Care Live 2024

    3PB family barrister Kellie Salter will be speaking at the Community Care Live 2024 conference on "Competence, capacity and parental responsibility – a guide to all three for those working with young people." Kellie is speaking as part of a new legal learning stream, providing the latest legal guidance and advice from some of the country’s leading experts. Community Care Live 2024 is the UK's largest free-to-attend social work event and is held this year...

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  • 3PB’s Employment and Discrimination Group achieves 6 new rankings in the Legal 500 2025 edition

    3PB barristers and its Employment and Discrimination team have cause for celebration as they are confirmed as a top tier team in the Western and South Eastern Circuits in the latest Legal 500 edition. Praised by clients as “‘an excellent set’ with an employment team ‘packed full of top-tier barristers’ and an excellent track record for advising across the full spectrum of employment law matters”, 3PB is regarded as “‘a chambers with a wide skill...

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  • 3PB Family Law confirmed for its excellence in the Legal 500 2025 edition

    3PB’s family law team remains at the top of its league in the Legal 500 2025 edition, achieving top tier in the Midlands for Family: children and domestic violence and for Family: divorce and financial remedy as well as top tier in the Western circuit for Family: children and domestic violence. The Western team’s family finance barristers are awarded tier 2. The team has achieved a total of 56 rankings across 4 Circuits (in London,...

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    3PB achieves record rankings in the Legal 500’s 2025 edition

    3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), one of the UK's largest chambers, is celebrating this year again its rankings - totalling 167 - in the Legal 500 2025’s edition published today, a 15% increase on last year’s 145. The set is ranked in 23 areas of law, across 4 UK Circuits: London, South Eastern, Western and the Midlands. 3PB’s barristers are also ranked in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. The Legal 500 acknowledges 3PB...

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    Former Solicitor General Michael Tomlinson KC returns to 3PB

    Former Solicitor General in England and Wales, the Rt.Hon. Michael Tomlinson KC (call:2002) is returning to 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) to practice as a barrister after more than 9 years as an MP and becoming one of UK’s top law enforcement officers. Michael was the first newly appointed King’s Counsel in 2022 and was sworn in as a member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in February 2024. Michael will be based in the...

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    Alice de Coverley speaks to The Work Couch on neurodiversity at work

    3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist education, equality and public law barrister Alice de Coverley has spoken to RPC Legal’s The Work Couch podcast as part of their neurodiversity mini-series ahead of ADHD awareness month in October. In the first episode of the series, which looks at the lived experience on neurodiversity, Alice joins host Ellie Gelder, alongside Auticon’s Ashlea Cromby and Tracey West and Victoria Othen of RPC Legal. The conversation covers a range...

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    David Parratt KC (Scot) and Poppy Watson feature in the latest issue of ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes Magazine

    3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) David Parratt KC (Scot) and Poppy Watson have contributed to the latest edition of ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes Magazine. Specialist commercial and contractual dispute barrister David Parratt KC (Scot) is featured in TL4’s popular “60-Seconds With” segment, which offers readers an insight into experts in the field with quick-fire questions on their thoughts around and beyond their work. In his interview, published on page 4, David speaks to a range of topics...

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    Hamish Dunlop writes for Family Law about Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA)

    3PB Barrister’s Hamish Dunlop writes for Family Law Week about Financial remedy after a foreign divorce: Is Part III MFPA still true to its purpose? (familylaw.co.uk) Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA) was enacted just over 40 years ago. The legislation empowered English Courts to provide financial relief to parties who had a substantial connection with England & Wales but had divorced abroad. Its clear and admirable intention was to alleviate...

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