Personal Injury News

3PB’s pupil barristers Mariya Peykova, Georgina Dietrich (editor) and Gemma Ralph are authors of a new newsletter, ‘’Publications during the Pandemic’’. The newsletter has introductions from David Berkley QC, 3PB’s Head of Chambers, and Cheryl Jones, Head of Pupillage at 3PB. The newsletter focuses on the Coronavirus Act 2020 and highlights updates in the areas of Clinical Negligence, Construction, Competition and Insolvency law with focus on the regulations and laws during this unprecedented time. The...

3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Team is pleased to be hosting a virtual quiz, in aid of the Child Brain Injury Trust, at 7pm on Friday 1st May 2020. We would be delighted if you could join us. All the usual rounds, together with ‘team breakout rooms’ and the wooden spoon! The Child Brain Injury Trust is the leading voluntary sector organisation providing support for those people affected by childhood acquired brain injury across...

3PB Family and Property Law Barrister Luke Nelson has produced an updated practical guide to case management for remote hearings. Due to the Coronavirus lockdown, the legal sector (known for it’s old fashioned ways of working) is having to adapt quickly to working remotely. The checklist and practical guide to case management provides you with all the knowledge you need to move forward during these unprecedented times. To read the guide please click here.

3PB is thrilled to have been shortlisted by the Legal 500 directory in the following categories: Regional Bar: Set of the Year and Regional Bar: Silk of the Year – Vanessa Meachin QC The nomination for Regional Set of the Year is further acknowledgment of the talent, hard work and investment by 3PB's members and staff this year across all of our specialisms and 6 office locations in the UK. The set was previously shortlisted in...

Fraudulent Personal Injury Claims: Tips for Litigating Fundamental Dishonesty - An update by Ikeni Mbako-Allison. Click here to read Ikeni's analysis.  

3PB barristers Henrietta Hughes and Gabriel Adedeji publish our latest Personal Injury Law update covering: New key publications The new discount rate Cases analysis: FD: Daniel O’Brien v Royal Mail Group LTD (May 2019) QBD (Manchester) Hire & Contractual Liability: Andrew Phillips v Aviva Insurance UK LTD (Jan 2019) CC (Bournemouth & Poole) Split Liability: Luxton V Raja [2019] EWHC 644 (QB) Exceptional Circumstances, Fixed Costs: Ferri V Gill [2019] EWHC 952 (QB) 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 ...

Ahead of Armed Forces day this Saturday 29th June, 3PB Barristers are delighted to announce their close cooperation with solicitors Bower & Bailey to provide first class legal assistance to Armed Forces Personnel – across the whole spectrum of legal specialisms. Both firms will sign on Wednesday 3rd July the Armed Forces Covenant, pledging support to Armed Services Personnel through the supply of legal services and charity work. National barristers chambers 3PB have established strong...

Susan Jones represented the former managing director of a small construction company, in a Jury inquest touching the death of a sub contractor who fell from a ladder on a construction site. The Jury heard that there had been breaches of safe working practices and that a colleague saw the deceased prior to the fall not holding the ladder and it looked as though something was wrong with him. Following conclusion of the evidence, Susan invited...

In his latest article, Ikeni Mbako-Allison analyses the costs and evidential considerations arising from exiting the RTA Protocol. Click here to read Ikeni's analysis.

Ten specialist members of 200-strong 3PB Barristers will today be training more than 50 lawyers from leading law firm Irwin Mitchell’s highly-regarded Medical Negligence, Family Law, Court of Protection/Public Law and Travel (Serious Injury) teams at 3PB's Colmore Building offices in Birmingham.    

3PB’s Head of PI and Clinical Negligence Mark Lomas represented the family of Professor John Alliston, formerly of the Royal Agricultural University, at the inquest into his death in 2017. Shortly after Professor Alliston and his wife took a private rental of a rural property, he was working in the garden when he touched a copper pipe on the exterior of the house and received a fatal electric shock. After a 2 day inquest, the...