William Hansen
Year of Call: 1992
Email Address: william.hansen@3pb.co.uk
CJSM: william.hansen@3paper.cjsm.net
Telephone: 020 7583 8055
Mediation
William Hansen is a qualified mediator and also has wide experience of both international and domestic arbitration. His diverse case- load has included an international commercial arbitration against the UN involving UNIDROIT principles and a domestic arbitration involving a dispute about the proper interpretation of a reservation of sporting rights.
Academic qualifications
- B.Sc (Econ), First Class, LSE
- M.Phil (Cantab.)
- MBA (London Business School) with Distinction
Professional qualifications & appointments
- Authorised to sit as a High Court Judge, Chancery Division
- Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge, Administrative Appeals Chamber
- Recorder, Crime and Civil
- Deputy Chancery Master
- Judge, First Tier Tribunal, Property Chamber
- Member of Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Counsel
- ADR Qualified Mediator
Professional bodies
- Member of the Administrative Law Bar Association
- Member of the Chancery Bar Association
- Member of the Property Bar Association
Direct Access
William Hansen is qualified to accept instructions directly from members of the public and professional clients under the Direct Public Access scheme.
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3PB congratulates William Hansen, pictured here, on his recent authorisation to sit as a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division. His appointment will be effective from 7th March 2022 for six years. William Hansen specialises in both public and regulatory law, and property and commercial law. He has recently appeared in a series of important cases in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel. ...
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Three of 3PB’s specialist public and regulatory law barristers: William Hansen, Matthew Wyard and Naomi Webber, successfully represented the Secretary of State for the Home Department in the decision of OA (Somalia) handed down on 2nd February 2022 following a six-day trial held in June 2021. The appeal was listed to consider whether the country guidance given in MOJ & Ors (Return to Mogadishu) Somalia CG [2014] UKUT 00442 (IAC) continued accurately to summarise the factual...
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The Supreme Court has today, Wednesday 2 February 2022, given judgment refusing the claimants’ appeals in R (O and Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 3, the high-profile appeal concerning the fees charged to children applying to register as British citizens. 3PB's public law and regulatory barrister William Hansen, pictured here, represented the Home Secretary. The Appellants, led by the campaigning group...
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Congratulations to barrister William Hansen, one of 3PB’s senior specialist counsel in public law, property law and commercial litigation, who has been re-appointed for another five years to the Attorney General’s (AG's) A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. William, pictured here, regularly acts for a variety of government departments and agencies including the Secretary of State for the Home Department, HMRC, MoJ, the NCA and the Secretary of State for Business. He routinely...
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