3PB welcomes Birmingham family barrister Davinia Riley
4th August 2025
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to welcome matrimonial finance and probate/inheritance barrister Davinia Riley (call:2004) to its 90-strong team of family barristers. Davinia joins 3PB from a rival top-tier Midlands set for family finance.
Davinia's experience over the last twenty years is primarily in high value, complex financial issues often involving trust assets, businesses, multiple properties (UK-based and international) and inheritance. Ranked by Legal 500 since 2022 as a leading junior barrister in matrimonial finance, Davinia is also very experienced in disputes over wills, trusts and probate and therefore familiar with civil litigation and the Civil Procedure Rules.
Davinia said of her move: “I am delighted to be joining 3PB's highly-regarded finance team. I have no doubt that this will be a great move for me. 3PB have a great national reputation for advocacy, client care and quality of their work."
Vanessa Meachin KC, who heads 3PB’s Family Law Group, said: “Davinia is an excellent addition to our family finance team. She is well-known to many of us and I am delighted to welcome Davinia to 3PB."
If you wish to contact Davinia, please email her at [email protected]. To instruct her, or see about her availability, please contact her clerks, Ian Charlton on [email protected] or Philip Jones on [email protected] or by emailing [email protected]. You can contact either of them on 0121 289 4333.
Davinia Riley's recruitment follows the news over the last five months of four other family barristers joining the national chambers: with Laura Buchan joining from Westgate Chambers, Shan Parker moving across from College Chambers, Peter Wilkinson joining from 3DJB and Gemma Farrington KC from 42BR starting with 3PB on 1 September.
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