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      Top arbitrator and litigator David Parratt KC joins 3PB

      3PB Head of Chambers David Berkley KC is delighted to announce that barrister and former Advocate David Parratt KC (call: 1999/Silk: 2017) has joined full-time from Arnot Manderson Chambers in Scotland, having previously been a door tenant with the national chambers. David (pictured here) is a leading counsel for international and UK arbitrations and also has experience acting as arbitrator. He is renowned for his work in commercial, construction, engineering and energy disputes. He has...

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      Thomas Evans and Thomas Acworth secure acquittal in Operation Powerboat

      Two of 3PB’s specialist crime barristers Thomas Evans and Thomas Acworth have secured the acquittal of their client in ‘’Operation Powerboat’’. Their client was charged with assisting an offender in relation to an alleged murder and attempted murder by a then 16 year-old in June 2020. He was said to have helped the murderer to escape from Dorset and secreted bloodstained clothing in a neighbour's bin. The Defendant was unanimously acquitted following a 4-week trial at the Crown...

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      Employment law case update out now

      This month's round up of all the latest employment case law is now available in both podcast and video form! Karen Moss and Grace Nicholls take you through their analyses of two of the most significant cases decided in December 2020. Karen talks about Quilter Private Client Advisers v Falconer and Continuum (Financial Services) LLP; whilst Grace takes us through Steer v Stormsure Ltd in the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Quilter and Falconer is a case...

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      3PB burns the midnight oil for claimant businesses ahead of Supreme Court decision in their favour on the FCA’s Business Interruption Insurance test case

      3PB Head of Chambers David Berkley QC (pictured here) and fellow commercial litigation barrister Neil Fawcett have been burning the midnight oil since Christmas ahead of today’s test case in favour of their clients, most of whom are small to medium-sized businesses, after the Supreme Court found in favour of the Financial Conduct Authority in their case against Arch Insurance and other UK insurers. Some insurers have already paid out on certain claims, but many have...

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    • Employment and discrimination law - January newsletter out now

      This month's newsletter is packed full of employment law news, case analysis and useful information written by our team of expert employment barristers.
      In this edition we bring you the news of a forthcoming new Silk appointment in our team, the latest employment news as well as our articles.
      We have a podcast recording on PI claims arising out of discrimination claims as well as an employment law update in video and podcast form.
      Finally, we invite you to register for our first live employment law webinar of 2021, due to take place on 18 February.

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    • Sunyana Sharma extols the benefits of secondments for barristers in Counsel magazine

      In July 2013, barrister Sunyana Sharma started a whole new area of regulatory and disciplinary law when she took up a secondment as a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) case presenter. For six months, she presented NMC cases up and down the country. The birth of her daughter in 2016 brought fresh challenges in returning to private practice and doing a three-week trial in Manchester at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service when still breastfeeding and...

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      Brexit and employment law

      On 24 December 2020 the UK and EU reached three agreements setting out the future relationship between the parties. Those three agreements comprise of the trade and co-operation agreement, the security of classified information agreement and finally the Euratom UK nuclear co-operation agreement. For the purposes of UK employment law practitioners, the key agreement is the trade and co-operation agreement. On 31 December 2020 the future relationship agreements were published, subject to final revisions. The...

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      Coronavirus and employment law - latest news

      Furlough With news that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended to 30 April 2021, employers would be wise to check the updated guidance on Gov.UK with regards to the current furlough arrangements and who can be included within the scheme. Click here to view the guidance. The Tribunals Late last week, and following the announcement of a third national lockdown, the Presidents of the Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and Scotland confirmed...

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      Regulatory/disciplinary barrister Victoria Sheppard-Jones joins 3PB  

      Victoria Sheppard-Jones, a specialist in financial crime and regulatory investigations, prosecutions and enforcement in the financial services and healthcare sectors, has joined national chambers 3PB Barristers from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). She has been working at the FCA on an investigation into the Anti Money Laundering and Compliance framework of a large bank. This follows two years as a complex casework lawyer at the Court of Appeal's Criminal Division. Prior to this, Victoria was...

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      Michael Corrigan retires from chambers

      Head of Credit Control and former Senior Clerk, Michael Corrigan (pictured here) has announced his retirement at the age of 70 from 3PB Barristers, having started in the Temple in 1968 as a junior clerk.  Prior to joining 3PB in 2006, he was the Senior Clerk for 25 years in a busy Common Law set in the Temple in London. 3PB are arranging a celebratory dinner for Michael, once the pandemic restrictions allow. Michael was...

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      Joshua Dubin comments about cowboy builders and victims’ rights for MailonLine

      The website MailonLine carried a detailed feature yesterday about homeowners who were left thousands of pounds out of pocket at the hands of their 'cowboy' builders. Their accounts come amid growing calls for the Government to introduce a statutory licensing scheme which regulates builders and protects customers seeking redress for poor workmanship. 3PB property barrister Joshua Dubin (pictured here) said in the article that “one of the important pitfalls for the building industry was the...

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      Sunyana Sharma reviews the impact of Maughan in the Coroners Court

      3PB’s specialist regulatory and criminal law barrister Sunyana Sharma (pictured here) has reviewed the case of R (on the application of Maughan) (AP) v. Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46. The case related to James Maughan, who was a prisoner held in HMP Bullingdon. Sadly on 11 July 2016 he was found hanging in his cell from a ligature and he was pronounced dead. The jury, in its narrative had originally concluded...

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