Family News

Emma Mabey joins 3PB Family Group

12th February 2024

3PB welcomes family barrister Emma Mabey from 2 Dr Johnson Building in the Temple, London where she has built a busy and varied public and private law family practice, focussing on disputes over children. She is regularly instructed to represent parents and local authorities in fact find hearings, DOLs and final hearings and represents all parties in increasingly complex cases. A former social worker, Emma spent 16 years in children and families social work, focusing...

Andrew Duncan writes for The Barrister on risk identification in child welfare cases

9th January 2024

3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist family law barrister Andrew Duncan (pictured here) has written for The Barrister on the importance of a proper identification of risk in cases involving child welfare evaluation. In his article entitled “A timely reminder: Risk Identification and Mitigation”, Andrew uses reported case examples, such as H-W (Children); H-W (Children) (No 2) [2022] UKSC 17, as well as his own experience within the family courts, to explore the importance of...

Steven Howard's Standard Family Orders Handbook is published

2nd January 2024

3PB's family barrister Steven Howard has co-authored The Standard Family Orders Handbook: Volume 2, which is the approved source of guidance to the official Standard Family Court Orders, covering Children and Other Orders. The handbook has expert commentary from Steven, His Honour Judge Kambiz Moradifar, Nastassia Hylton, Edward Bennett and Alexander Laing. What's new in this 3rd Edition, published by Class Legal, are details of the substantially revised orders in Volume 2 of the May...

Regional law firm SE-Solicitors and Michael George shortlisted for British Family Law Award

13th December 2023

SE-Solicitors, with offices located in the heart of England in Banbury, Bicester and Brackley have been announced as a finalist for The Family Innovator Award in recognition of their new service called Divorce Together™. The British Family Law Awards celebrates excellence in the profession, bringing the family law community together for its biggest night of the year. The Family Law Awards recognises the important, valuable work of family lawyers across the country, and commemorates their...

His Honour Stephen Wildblood KC moves across to 3PB

29th November 2023

His Honour Stephen Wildblood KC, who retired as a Circuit Judge on Tuesday 21st November, has announced that he is joining national chambers 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) with immediate effect as an associate tenant. Stephen will be accepting appointments as a Private FDR Judge and, in relation to finances and children, as a mediator and early neutral evaluator. He is also intending to qualify as family law arbitrator in the immediate future. He will continue...

Luke Nelson successful on appeal for an intervenor in financial remedy proceedings

24th November 2023

3PB family and private client barrister Luke Nelson (pictured here) successfully appealed an earlier judgment in financial remedy proceedings. Luke's client was the intervenor: the beneficiary of a charging order arising out of a personal injury award due to historical sexual abuse by her uncle, the husband in the present proceedings. He is now serving a custodial sentence for her rape. The appeal was heard in Birmingham before HHJ Ingram, and Luke was instructed by...

Poonam Bhari re-appointed to the Family Procedure Rule Committee

21st November 2023

3PB is proud to announce that family barrister Poonam Bhari (pictured here) has been re-appointed by The Lord Chancellor to the Family Procedure Rule Committee (FPRC). Poonam has been re-appointed for a further 3 years from 28 February 2024, alongside solicitor Graeme Fraser and fellow barrister Rhys Taylor. Poonam Bhari is a family law barrister, called in 1999, specialising in public and private family law cases involving children. Poonam is based at 3PB's Inner Temple...

3PB recruits top family finance barrister Roger Thomas

17th November 2023

National chambers 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) continue their Birmingham expansion with the recruitment of senior family finance barrister Roger Thomas from St Ives Chambers in Birmingham. Roger Thomas is a busy family barrister who has been representing litigants in financial remedy cases for nearly 25 years in disputes under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and cohabiting couples under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. A financial...

3PB’s Family Law Team exceeds expectations in Chambers & Partners 2024

19th October 2023

3PB Barristers’ Family Law team has been rewarded with 22 individual rankings in this year’s Chambers and Partners edition published today. The team is once again rewarded with Band 1 rankings for both Family Children and Family Finance in the Midlands. Our barristers also retain their Band 2 ranking in Western. To well-deserved accolades in the London Bar, the team now also adds a ranking in South Eastern. 3PB’s national team thanks the clients and...

3PB celebrates 81 rankings in Chambers and Partners 2024

19th October 2023

3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) breaks another record in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 81 accolades. The national set is rewarded with rankings in 18 areas of law, in the London Bar as well as in the South Eastern, Western and Midlands Circuits and exceptional comments on its service delivery, including praise for its “sublime service” and its "ability to manage matters in a professional and comprehensive manner second...

Former family solicitor David Beatson joins 3PB

10th October 2023

3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to announce that former family solicitor David Beatson – who qualified as a solicitor in 2017 with a well-known law firm in the South-West of England - has become a tenant with the national chambers. David will continue to specialise in family law, principally public and private law disputes concerning children. Family barrister David Beatson (call:2022), pictured here, was a solicitor-advocate before becoming a barrister and completed a...

Senior Birmingham family barrister joins 3PB

6th October 2023

Senior family barrister Susan Todd, pictured here, has joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from St Philips Chambers today and will work from the national chambers' Birmingham office. Called to the Bar in 1991, Susan has specialised in public and private law children cases for over thirty years. She works in the Family Court and the Family Division for parents, grandparents, intervenors and children's guardians. She prides herself on providing a committed service to every client,...