Toria Holland is a family law barrister at 3PB based in Winchester.
Toria has developed a busy practice in all areas of family law; she has represented clients at every stage of proceedings in private children, including multiday final hearings and fact-finding hearings, in which she has achieved successful outcomes for her clients. Toria is a confident advocate, as evidenced through achieving the top bar school advocacy scholarship and the highest mark in the cross-examination exam. She is instructed on complex cases, including cases which have escalated to require the instruction of silks.
Toria is building a busy practice in matrimonial finance and has represented clients in FDRs and contentious final hearings. She has an excellent eye for detail and excels due to her meticulous preparation.
Toria has considerable experience in providing support and advice during relationship breakdown for domestic violence victims from her volunteering at the National Centre For Domestic Violence (NCDV). She accepts instructions in Family Law Act 1996 matters.
Toria is regularly instructed in care proceedings, having represented family members and local authorities in a range of hearings, from initial urgent hearings through to final hearings. Her empathetic and approachable manner reassures her clients during the difficult and stressful process of court proceedings. She has been led on a 5-day fact-finding case involving a shaken baby and has represented clients facing serious allegations of abuse, neglect and parental alienation.
A former human rights paralegal at law firm Hickman & Rose in London, Toria assisted clients to secure public and private law remedies arising from malpractice including human rights challenges, discrimination and judicial review. She was also involved with Article 2 inquests, investigating the state’s role in a person’s death and working closely with bereaved families. Prior to this role, Toria spent 3 months in Texas interning with the Federal Public Defenders office helping to defend people facing the death penalty.
Outside of work, Toria is a keen runner and completed her first marathon in London 2024
Second-six pupil barrister Victoria Holland on the case of Re T (Children: Risk Assessment) [2025] EWCA Civ 93, which highlights the importance of analysing all the factors in the welfare checklist when considering a care and placement order instead of relying excessively on the ‘risk of harm’ factor.
The judgment also sets out a 7-step approach to this analysis.
Welcome to the latest and final newsletter for 2025. It comes hot off the press of some fantastic results for Chambers in the legal directories with record results for the family team. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who gave up their valuable time to provide the feedback, it is very much appreciated.
I hope you have enjoyed our newsletter this year. We thank you for following us in 2025 and we will be back with more updates, articles and innovative ideas in the new year! Please do get in touch if you would like to get involved.
3PB attended the University of Winchester Law Fair 2025 yesterday. This was an excellent opportunity to meet prospective pupils and mini-pupils and explore and network with firms across all areas of the legal field and beyond. We were delighted to participate and support this very successful fair. 3PB has previously supported students by offering a six-month placement with the national chambers to a student from the University of Winchester. During this placement, we provided the...
Continue readingWelcome to our quarterly 3PB family team newsletter, edited by Amy Beddis.
In this edition, we celebrate Aimee Fox and Amy Beddis becoming joint heads of our family finance team and welcome new tenants Peter Wilkinson and Shan Parker. Analysis is provided by Nicola Frost, Andrew J. Duncan, Rachel Bale, David Beatson and Victoria Holland. Our newsletter also features the reported cases that June Venters KC, Andrew J. Duncan, Gemma Chapman, Laurie-Elizabeth Ketley and Paul Froud recently acted in. Our forthcoming events and links to past family law brunch resources are included.
3PB (3 Paper Buildings) are pleased to announce that our second six pupils - James, Emily and Victoria (pictured left to right) - are now on their feet and accepting instructions in their own cases. All started their pupillages last October. James Hume, a former Fleet Air Arm Officer, will now accept instructions in commercial litigation, property and construction disputes. Emily Hayward, who was a paralegal in Slaughter and May’s Disputes and Investigation team, will...
Continue reading
