General News

On 25 July Mark Green appeared in the Court of Appeal on two separate appeals, led by Timothy Brennan QC. The first appeal looked at when the 6 year limitation deadline imposed by the Limitation Act 1980 would apply in the context of an unlawful deduction of wages claim for sums owing under the national minimum wage legislation over a period of 15 years. The second case involved a question of the time limit to appeal...

3PB has today announced that the barristers chambers is moving back into its Bournemouth offices on Christchurch Road. This follows extensive damage to its offices which forced the national chambers  to spend nearly four months in temporary offices at Bourne Space on Hinton Road in Bournemouth.  The four-floor chambers building was declared unsafe and electricity was turned off after thousands of litres of water flooded its offices through the night of Tuesday 9th April with...

3PB barristers Henrietta Hughes and Gabriel Adedeji publish our latest Personal Injury Law update covering: New key publications The new discount rate Cases analysis: FD: Daniel O’Brien v Royal Mail Group LTD (May 2019) QBD (Manchester) Hire & Contractual Liability: Andrew Phillips v Aviva Insurance UK LTD (Jan 2019) CC (Bournemouth & Poole) Split Liability: Luxton V Raja [2019] EWHC 644 (QB) Exceptional Circumstances, Fixed Costs: Ferri V Gill [2019] EWHC 952 (QB) Click here...

Chambers is delighted to announce Mark Green's promotion to the Attorney-General’s London B Panel for a period of five years commencing on 2nd September 2019. Chambers currently has five other members on the Attorney-General’s civil panels. They are: London A Panel: Mathew Gullick, William Hansen London B Panel: Richard Wheeler, Caroline Stone Regional Panel B: Simon Tibbitts

Head of Chambers David Berkley KC is delighted to announce that David Parratt KC, Barrister and Advocate, has joined 3PB Barristers from Crown Office Chambers. He is one of the leading Silks in Scotland for international and UK arbitrations and has experience both as counsel and arbitrator. He is renowned for his work in commercial, construction, engineering and energy disputes. He has acted in many of the biggest arbitration cases for leading blue-chip clients, including...

Simon Tibbitts has just finished a 10 day hearing in London Central Employment Tribunal that has received widespread media attention. The trial has been reported in the Telegraph, Guardian, BBC News and the Independent amongst others. Simon appeared on behalf of the Ministry of Defence defending claims of racial harassment and discrimination brought by two former paratroopers. Judgment is reserved but a link to an article from the Independent can be found here. Click here...

Our barristers and clerks have been busy this month giving back to our communities by raising money for charities. On 16 June, 3PB’s Head of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Mark Lomas and Chambers Director Stuart Pringle skydived on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, raising £1,990 for Alabaré’s Homes for Veterans. A team of 7 barristers and staff – Deputy Head of Chambers Gavin Hamilton, Michelle Marnham, Lachlan Wilson, Henrietta Hughes, Eloise ...

Pupil barrister Ashley Blood-Halvorsen has been working for the last 18 months on a review of global reforms of cannabis law, that has just been published by a working party of the Society of Conservative Lawyers (SCL). The new report “Cannabis: A look at sweeping global change” was authored by Ashley and Simon Randall CBE of Winkworth Sherwood LLP and looks at the history of the drug and the legal position in England and Wales, Canada,...

3PB Barristers William Webster’s new seminal guide for planning practitioners - “Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook” – published by leading UK law publishers Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, has attracted critical praise from planning barrister Dr Ashley Bowes, Editor of the Journal of Planning & Environment Law,  in Thomson Reuters’ Book Reviews. The book undoubtedly provides the busy planning professional with answers to day-to-day commonly encountered issues. Covering a broad range of topics, it also provides...

3PB VAT specialist Max Schofield has been invited to speak at EANOVAT's 5th annual VAT conference. Entitled Can (EU) VAT Contribute to a Fairer Society?​, the conference will be held at the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP), School of Law, University of Leeds (UK), on September 6th, 2019.​ ​Full programme and online registration​ are available here. Max is also delighted to have recently accepted to be co-editor of the Wolters Kluwer publication “A handbook...

3PB Barristers are delighted to host CITMA's first Midlands lecture of the year at our Birmingham Chambers. Programme Outline Recent trade mark decisions are beginning to impact the future of trade mark applications: 3PB IP Barrister Victoria Jones will share her insights and forecasts, outlining what we can now register as a trade mark, and the specifications applied to marks. Victoria will also review the CJEU reference in Sky v SkyKick, where the telecoms giant claimed...

3PB Barristers hosts a lively panel debate presented by The Midlands Adjudication Society discussing recent case studies. Thanks to Tim Willis at the Adjudication Society for Chairing, the four panellist’s, Anthony Galvin at Altion Law, James Bessy at Blake Morgan and 3PB’s Nick Kaplan and Nigel Ribbands and all those who attended and contributed.