3PB family newsletter is out now featuring news and a round up of our recent brunch series
12th June 2020
The 3PB family team brings you a round-up of the latest news and a summary of the talks from our recent series of brunch talks.
This issue includes contributions from or news about Vanessa Meachin QC, Aimee Fox, Amy Beddis, Gemma Chapman, Emma Harman, Emma Griffiths, Michael George, Antonida Kocharova, James Legg, Hamish Dunlop, Sarah Jennings, Theresa Lim, Adeo Fraser, Nicola Frost, Hannah Bush, and Steven Howard as well as details of our upcoming events.
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3PB's joint head of Family Finance, Aimee Fox, has delivered a webinar for LexisNexis entitled 'How to Run a Successful Financial Remedies Conduct Case under MCA 1973, s.25(2)(g)'. The webinar explores the significance of conduct in financial remedies proceedings, the different categories of conduct that may be relevant and the courts' approach to such cases. It also examines issues relating to litigation conduct, non-disclosure, adverse inferences, the impact of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, coercive...
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Poppy May Watson (call 2020), a family barrister based in Southampton, has joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) and will practice from the national chambers' Bournemouth and Winchester offices. Poppy has a busy caseload and practises exclusively in child law - be that private law, care proceedings or adoption - so acting in both privately funded and publicly funded cases. Her workload routinely involves cases with allegations of Parental Alienation, Non-Accidental Injury (NAI, NAHI and death...
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Komal Patel (pictured) represented the guardian in F v M & Anor [2026] EWFC 133 (B), a private law children case, in which HHJ Owens delivered a fact-finding judgment concerning allegations of physical and sexual abuse made by a child against her father. Whilst the allegations themselves were serious, the wider significance of the decision lies in the court's examination of professional practice when allegations of abuse are made and, in particular, the continued relevance...
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3PB’s June Venters KC has written an article titled ‘Re-centring procedural integrity and gender neutrality in private law children proceedings: lessons from Re E' for Family Law Journal. She explores one of the most significant recent examinations of the conduct and integrity of private law children proceedings. The lessons of Re E are stark, reaffirming that procedural integrity is not merely an administrative preference, but the essential foundation of justice in family law. To read...
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