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Specialist education law barristers Alice de Coverley and Matthew Wyard have issued urgent advice for students and schools regarding today’s A-level results. Since the Coronavirus pandemic started, the education sector has had to adapt to new ways of working. This has posed significant challenges for schools and students across the UK. Today (13th August 2020), A-level students will receive their long awaited results for exams they didn’t get to sit. The guidance is ever-changing and...

3PB’s employment and discrimination barrister Simon Tibbitts was instructed by law firm Clarks Legal LLP to represent the claimant, a hugely successful IT sales executive, before the London Central employment tribunal in a final hearing lasting over 6 days in December 2019. The claimant, Nadine Lee, brought several claims against her ex-employer Splunk Services UK, which is part of a US multinational technology company based in San Francisco. Splunk were represented by Jane Mulcahy QC...

3PB criminal barristers awarded Certificates of Congratulations from the Chief Constable of Hampshire

10th August 2020

3PB criminal barristers Adam Feest QC and Berenice Mulvanny have both been awarded a "Certificate of Congratulations" from the Chief Constable of Hampshire for their “professionalism, dedication, empathy and attention to detail” in prosecuting a complicated and high-profile, historical sexual abuse case. Pictured here, after receiving their awards, are criminal barrister Berenice Mulvanny and Adam Feest QC, 3PB’s Head of Crime at the national chambers. To contact either barrister, please call their clerk Stuart Pringle...

Max Schofield analyses Landlinx Estates Ltd v HMRC, in which an option agreement over land was broken when the seller backed out and paid the would-be buyer £1.4m. HMRC wanted a slice of the action as VAT on the deal. Click here to read the full analysis, published in Accounting Web. Max Schofield is a commercial chancery barrister with an interest in VAT liability and rates as well as contractual disputes and commercial injunctions. Max...

Gareth Graham has edited 3PB's latest Employment and Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Katherine Anderson, Sarah Clarke, and Naomi Webber. The newsletter provides a round up of the latest employment law news, case law reviews from our leading barristers; and an update on the latest in our series of webinars and our new recorded case law updates. Click here to view the newsletter. News and topics reviewed include: Tribunals update Evaluation of court and tribunal...

Gareth Graham reports on two important appeals which took place this month. Both were live-streamed from the Supreme Court, and the judgments will be promulgated later in the year. The first, Uber v Aslam and others, concerns the well-known private hire vehicle booking service. Journeys are booked through a smartphone app, which connects passengers to drivers. The drivers contend that, during the periods covered by their claims, they were “workers” for the purposes of the...

The Judicial College Equal Treatment Bench Book has issued guidance for judges on the conduct of remote hearings. Employment Barrister Gareth Graham outlines its key findings. The guidance states that remote hearings are “by no means the new normal”, but that they will continue to have a place in the future. It acknowledges that the pandemic has left many cases languishing, and that the natural inclination is to get them heard as soon as possible....

Following the publication of an independent evaluation of HMCTS video hearings, Employment Barrister Gareth Graham briefly compares the 3PB team's experiences with the research's key findings. The research reports on a process evaluation of the user experience of video hearings in the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber). The pool of data is limited, and the pilot used an early technical product to test the concept of video hearings, so it is perhaps of limited direct relevance...

It has now been a full month since tribunals reopened their doors to in-person hearings on 29 June 2020. Employment barrister Gareth Graham provides an update of what has changed since the reopening. During the past month, guidance as to how those in-person hearings should operate has not changed to any significant degree. On a practical level, hearing venues have taken steps to allow for social distancing. For example, at Reading, two of the four hearing rooms...

3PB’s specialist family and education law barrister, Aimee Fox has had an article published in the Family Law Journal. Aimee has provided her insight into how a child's additional needs may have an impact on private law and financial remedy proceedings. She also gives tips on where evidence can be found and what to look for. To read the full article, which was first published in June 2020 in the Family Law Journal, please click here. To discuss...

Part 2 of 3PB's pupillage series 'To Pupillage and Beyond' is available to watch now! Find out more about the life of a barrister and about options through your career – such as achieving a judicial appointment, becoming an author or taking silk – from the people who’ve done it. In this video you’ll ‘meet’ a selection of 3PB barristers from the very junior to the most top ranking silks and hear about how their...

3PB Barrister, arbitrator, adjudicator (construction industry) & civil / commercial mediator Paul Newman will take part on 31 July at 12:00 in a Webinar looking at different ADR/ NCDR (non-court dispute resolution) models such as mediation, arbitration and early neutral evaluation. This free one-hour online event will give tips for those considering to use ADR to help the resolution of cases, with a focus on using ADR to navigate the backlog caused by the current...