General News

Ben Thompson joins 3PB's Crime and Regulatory Crime Group

2nd April 2025

3PB (3 Paper Buildings) is pleased to announce that crime and regulatory barrister Ben Thompson, based in Bournemouth, has become a full tenant of the 270-barrister national chambers after successfully completing his probationary tenancy. Ben is a busy and versatile practitioner on the Western Circuit, having joined 3PB from the CPS where he had completed his pupillage. As a prosecutor, Ben has been entrusted with serious cases, recently securing a just sentence in a controlling...

3PB second six pupils are on their feet and accepting instructions

2nd April 2025

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...

3PB welcomes three new pupil barristers to its 270-strong barrister ranks

1st April 2025

The three new pupil barristers starting their twelve-month pupillages with 3PB in April 2025, pictured left to right, are: Liam O'Shaughnessy, who worked as a senior HR professional for over 25 years, will be focusing on employment and discrimination; former Court of Appeal judicial assistant, journalist and sinophile Simon Haywood who will be focusing on civil litigation particularly commercial, property and costs; and former Burges Salmon paralegal and employment litigator at Croner and Direct Line...

Gareth Graham appointed to the ECB's Cricket Discipline Panel

31st March 2025

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed fourteen new members to its Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP). Among the new appointees is Gareth Graham, who has extensive experience of chairing sports disciplinary hearings (including for the Rugby Football Union, World Rugby, The Football Association, the British Horseracing Authority and British Cycling), as well as expertise in employment and sports law generally, with a particular focus on whistleblowing, safeguarding and discrimination cases. The CDP is...

Emily Hayward to speak at International Future Barrister Mentorship event

25th March 2025

3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) civil law pupil barrister Emily Hayward is speaking today (25 March) at a panel event on "The Bar for International Students", hosted by International Future Barrister Mentorship. The event, which will take place at the Inner Temple and on Zoom, will offer prospective pupils the opportunity to hear from barristers with international backgrounds about their journeys to the Bar in the UK and what advice they would offer having taken the leap....

3PB celebrates Silks Day for Jodie Mittell KC

24th March 2025

Barristers and staff from 3PB’s six national offices joined together today to celebrate the new silk status of Jodie Mittell KC (pictured here outside 3 Paper Buildings in London with her clerks Stuart Pringle and Lee Giles). Liz McGrath KC, Head of Chambers at 3PB, said ‘‘I would like to congratulate Jodie on her well-deserved appointment to Kings Counsel. This is a very special day for Jodie and us, and to be able to come...

Oliver Nunn secures £174,000 freezing injunction in landmark equine law case

21st March 2025

3PB's property, housing and agricultural specialist Oliver Nunn has successfully obtained a £174,000 freezing injunction in a high-value equine law dispute. Frequently instructed in disputes over horses, after sales, loans and veterinary treatments, Oliver was instructed by specialist equine solicitor Rebecca Stojak who is the Head of the Equine Law Team at Geldards LLP. Oliver represented an aspiring dressage rider who entered into an agreement to lease a horse at the rate of £30,000 per...

3PB’s Property and Estates Group welcomes Kinza Wahid and Emma Shiels

19th March 2025

3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is pleased to welcome two property law barristers Kinza Wahid and Emma Shiels (pictured left to right) to our 40-strong national Property and Estates Group.  Both Kinza and Emma will be based in our Birmingham office, but practicing nationwide. Kinza Wahid (call 2021) has a successful practice across the full range of property law, and those matters which cross over into traditional chancery areas. She is regularly instructed in disputes involving; landlord and tenant...

Tom Horder successful in HSE appeal securing reduction in fine of half a million pounds

18th March 2025

Tom Horder, joint head of 3PB’s crime and regulatory crime team, represented VFS (Southampton) Limited, a manufacturer of custom works vehicles in their successful appeal against sentence. At first instance the company was fined £600,000 after entering an early guilty plea to an offence under s.2 of HSWA 1974. The prosecution arose from a 2018 incident on their assembly line. Instructed by Cliff Morris of law firm Paris Smith, Tom (pictured here) argued on appeal...

Policy for accommodating asylum seekers at ex-RAF base found unlawful

14th March 2025

The High Court has today found that the Home Secretary breached the public sector equality duty, (‘PSED’) in s.149(1) of the Equality Act 2010, when arranging for single adult male asylum seekers to be accommodated at a remote ex-RAF base in the north Essex village of Wethersfield. The judgment in TG and others v SSHD [2025] EWHC 596 (Admin) follows over a year of litigation prompted by the previous government’s emphasis on the use of...

Sunyana Sharma features in Counsel Magazine discussing judicial careers

11th March 2025

3PB’s regulatory and inquest barrister Sunyana Sharma and Emma Cross, Chair of the Western Circuit Women’s Forum (‘WCWF’) feature in Counsel magazine’s March 2025 edition. In this article Sunyana discusses a judicial careers event organised by WCWF aimed at encouraging diversity within the judiciary. The article highlights the importance of initiatives that increase diversity and representation in the legal profession, particularly among women and underrepresented groups. It also mentions BarNone, a program designed to encourage...

Danielle Gotts St. Clair judges International Women’s Day competition at Nottingham Law School

10th March 2025

Friday 7 March saw  3PB sponsor the annual Mooting Competition organised by  Nottingham Law School's Mooters' Guild to celebrate International Women’s Day. The moot saw students debate  whether public nuisance was committed during a women’s rights protest, and whether a defence was available in respect of an offence of criminal damage. The moot problem was written by the Guild’s President Harry Toy and their Vice-President Charlotte Paxford. 3PB’s civil and regulatory barrister, Danielle Gotts St....