3 Paper Buildings (3PB) is one of the UK's oldest chambers and is the third largest set of barristers in the UK.

3PB provides a comprehensive legal advocacy and advisory service to individuals and businesses alike both in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Our 270 plus barristers offer legal representation and advice across the UK from six locations: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester.

Latest News

  • Thomas Talbot Ponsonby 3PB

    Thomas Talbot-Ponsonby appointed District Judge to sit in Slough

    3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to announce that property, commercial and chancery barrister Thomas Talbot-Ponsonby  will officially be appointed as a District Judge from Monday 6 January 2025. District Judge Talbot-Ponsonby will sit on the South Eastern Circuit and be based at the Slough Law Courts. Thomas was called to the Bar in 2011 and was appointed as a Deputy District Judge and a fee-paid Employment Judge in 2021. Before coming to the...

    Continue reading
  • Imogen Robins 2

    Senior family barrister Imogen Robins returns to 3PB

    Imogen Robins MCIarb has re-joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from Pump Court Chambers where she has practised since joining them in 2016. A  distinguished family law specialist renowned for her expertise in family finance, Imogen has an exceptional success record in advising high-net-worth (HNW) divorcing couples. Her practice centres on handling complex financial cases which include inherited wealth, property portfolios, family businesses, significant pensions, trusts, and pre-nuptial agreements. Instructed in cases under Schedule 1 of...

    Continue reading
  • Mark Wilden Jan 2022 1 scaled

    Mark Wilden joins The VIP Podcast to discuss Intellectual Property in the music industry

    3PB Barristers’ specialist Intellectual Property barrister Mark Wilden has spoken to Virtuoso Legal’s The VIP Podcast to discuss how Intellectual Property can affect the music industry. In the episode, entitled “Balancing Creativity and Law: Navigating Intellectual Property in the Music Industry with Mark Wilden”, Mark joins Virtuoso Legal’s Elizabeth Ward to discuss a range of topics including Mark’s own background in the music industry, how intellectual property law affects creative entities and legal issues of...

    Continue reading
  • Oliver Nunn no background edit 2

    Oliver Nunn delivers guest lectures to Land Law undergraduate students at the University of Leicester

    3PB specialist property & housing law barrister, Oliver Nunn, delivered two guest lectures to several hundred Land Law undergraduate students at the University of Leicester, on 28 November 2024. The lectures delivered were on a topic of how the law, both as it currently stands and in reform proposals contained in the Renters Rights Bill tries to balance the competing interests between landlords and tenants, in claims for possession of privately rented residential property, so...

    Continue reading

Events & Seminars

  • Tolata 1996 update

    3PB's ToLATA 1996 Update - 10 December on Zoom

    Date: Tuesday 10th Dec 2024
    Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Venue: On Zoom

    3PB Barristers are hosting a free ToLATA 1996 webinar update via Zoom on Tuesday 10 December at 11:00 for one hour. Members of both the Property & Estates and Family Group, Hamish Dunlop, Louise Worton and Rachel Bale, join together to consider co-habitee and co-owner rights, correct procedure under Civil Procedural Rules, pitfalls to avoid and other issues under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. Our specialists will also reflect on how…

  • LIPs 18 Dec 24

    Handling Litigants in Person: tips and tactics

    Date: Wednesday 18th Dec 2024
    Time: 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
    Venue: 3PB Birmingham The Colmore Building 20 Colmore Circus Birmingham B4 6AT

    3PB Barristers are hosting a free in-person employment seminar in Birmingham on Wednesday 18 December from 12.15pm until 1.45pm. Specialist employment barrister Andrew MacPhail shares his tips on handling litigation involving LIPs. Topics covered include: Most LIPs have no experience of litigation; as a result their ET1s are often very unclear. How should a Response be drafted when it is unclear what claims have in fact been pleaded? Should the Respondent ask for FBPs? Soon enough…

  • WiFL Jan 2025

    'New Year, New Me' - Women in Family Law networking event

    Date: Thursday 16th Jan 2025
    Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
    Venue: 3PB Birmingham Colmore Building 20 Colmore Circus Birmingham B4 6AT

    Join Women in Family Law for drinks and networking on Thursday 16 January 2025 between 5.30pm and 7pm and shake off those January blues! Please RSVP by 8 January 2025 as places are limited.

  • 3PB Barristers Education Law Conference 2025 square

    3PB Education Law Conference 2025

    Date: Thursday 6th Feb 2025
    Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Venue: IET London: Savoy Place

    The full-day event will include a variety of presentations from 3PB’s specialist education law barristers: Head of 3PB's Education Law group Charlotte Hadfield, Katherine Anderson, Ben Amunwa, Alice de Coverley, Jim Hirschmann, Olivia McGonigle and Rosa Thomas. We will be joined on the day by our sponsors Simply Social Work and Boyes Turner. Presentations will cover topics of interest to private practitioners, local authorities, and schools, including: Deprivation of liberty safeguards and unlawful detention in…

Close

2024 Holiday Opening Hours

  • Monday 23rd December - Normal Service
  • Tuesday 24th December - 8:30am to 1pm
  • Wednesday 25th December - Closed (Christmas Day)
  • Thursday 26th December - Closed (Boxing Day)
  • Friday 27th December - Closed
  • Monday 30th December - 8:30am to 1pm
  • Tuesday 31st December - 8:30am to 1pm
  • Wednesday 1st January - Closed (New Years Day)
  • Thursday 2nd January - Normal Service