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Chambers is delighted to announce Mark Green's promotion to the Attorney-General’s London B Panel for a period of five years commencing on 2nd September 2019. Chambers currently has five other members on the Attorney-General’s civil panels. They are: London A Panel: Mathew Gullick, William Hansen London B Panel: Richard Wheeler, Caroline Stone Regional Panel B: Simon Tibbitts

Head of Chambers David Berkley KC is delighted to announce that David Parratt KC, Barrister and Advocate, has joined 3PB Barristers from Crown Office Chambers. He is one of the leading Silks in Scotland for international and UK arbitrations and has experience both as counsel and arbitrator. He is renowned for his work in commercial, construction, engineering and energy disputes. He has acted in many of the biggest arbitration cases for leading blue-chip clients, including...

Simon Tibbitts has just finished a 10 day hearing in London Central Employment Tribunal that has received widespread media attention. The trial has been reported in the Telegraph, Guardian, BBC News and the Independent amongst others. Simon appeared on behalf of the Ministry of Defence defending claims of racial harassment and discrimination brought by two former paratroopers. Judgment is reserved but a link to an article from the Independent can be found here. Click here...

Our barristers and clerks have been busy this month giving back to our communities by raising money for charities. On 16 June, 3PB’s Head of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Mark Lomas and Chambers Director Stuart Pringle skydived on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, raising £1,990 for Alabaré’s Homes for Veterans. A team of 7 barristers and staff – Deputy Head of Chambers Gavin Hamilton, Michelle Marnham, Lachlan Wilson, Henrietta Hughes, Eloise ...

Pupil barrister Ashley Blood-Halvorsen has been working for the last 18 months on a review of global reforms of cannabis law, that has just been published by a working party of the Society of Conservative Lawyers (SCL). The new report “Cannabis: A look at sweeping global change” was authored by Ashley and Simon Randall CBE of Winkworth Sherwood LLP and looks at the history of the drug and the legal position in England and Wales, Canada,...

3PB Barristers William Webster’s new seminal guide for planning practitioners - “Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook” – published by leading UK law publishers Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, has attracted critical praise from planning barrister Dr Ashley Bowes, Editor of the Journal of Planning & Environment Law,  in Thomson Reuters’ Book Reviews. The book undoubtedly provides the busy planning professional with answers to day-to-day commonly encountered issues. Covering a broad range of topics, it also provides...

3PB VAT specialist Max Schofield has been invited to speak at EANOVAT's 5th annual VAT conference. Entitled Can (EU) VAT Contribute to a Fairer Society?​, the conference will be held at the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP), School of Law, University of Leeds (UK), on September 6th, 2019.​ ​Full programme and online registration​ are available here. Max is also delighted to have recently accepted to be co-editor of the Wolters Kluwer publication “A handbook...

3PB Barristers are delighted to host CITMA's first Midlands lecture of the year at our Birmingham Chambers. Programme Outline Recent trade mark decisions are beginning to impact the future of trade mark applications: 3PB IP Barrister Victoria Jones will share her insights and forecasts, outlining what we can now register as a trade mark, and the specifications applied to marks. Victoria will also review the CJEU reference in Sky v SkyKick, where the telecoms giant claimed...

3PB Barristers hosts a lively panel debate presented by The Midlands Adjudication Society discussing recent case studies. Thanks to Tim Willis at the Adjudication Society for Chairing, the four panellist’s, Anthony Galvin at Altion Law, James Bessy at Blake Morgan and 3PB’s Nick Kaplan and Nigel Ribbands and all those who attended and contributed.

Karen Moss edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Mark Green, Sarah Bowen, Joseph England and Daniel Brown. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.

Click here to read Matthew Curtis' notes "Schedules of Loss: Format, Optimisation and Pension Calculations". View Matthew Curtis's profile here.

An influential alliance of unions, charities and women’s rights group have campaigned this week to impose on employers a duty to prevent harassment in the workplace. On 26th June 2019 the petition was launched by the group called, This Is Not Working, including the Fawcett Society, Action Aid, Amnesty and Time’s Up UK. Their aim is the introduction of new legislation that would require employers to take preventative measures to stop sexual misconduct in the...