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An influential alliance of unions, charities and women’s rights group have campaigned this week to impose on employers a duty to prevent harassment in the workplace. On 26th June 2019 the petition was launched by the group called, This Is Not Working, including the Fawcett Society, Action Aid, Amnesty and Time’s Up UK. Their aim is the introduction of new legislation that would require employers to take preventative measures to stop sexual misconduct in the...

Ahead of Armed Forces day this Saturday 29th June, 3PB Barristers are delighted to announce their close cooperation with solicitors Bower & Bailey to provide first class legal assistance to Armed Forces Personnel – across the whole spectrum of legal specialisms. Both firms will sign on Wednesday 3rd July the Armed Forces Covenant, pledging support to Armed Services Personnel through the supply of legal services and charity work. National barristers chambers 3PB have established strong...

Barrister Paul Newman has been nominated by his peers and included in The Best Lawyers guide for Construction Law. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. Their methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. Described by the Legal 500 as 'Commercially astute and sharp on his feet’, this...

Susan Jones represented the former managing director of a small construction company, in a Jury inquest touching the death of a sub contractor who fell from a ladder on a construction site. The Jury heard that there had been breaches of safe working practices and that a colleague saw the deceased prior to the fall not holding the ladder and it looked as though something was wrong with him. Following conclusion of the evidence, Susan invited...

In his latest article, Ikeni Mbako-Allison analyses the costs and evidential considerations arising from exiting the RTA Protocol. Click here to read Ikeni's analysis.

3PB Barristers’ Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence teams are delighted to sponsor law firm Royds Withy King’s “Ahead Together” 2019 national conference, taking place at the iconic Rhodes House in Oxford on 12 September 2019. This inaugural conference will focus on family and professional relationships support after acquired brain injury. This conference is for professional attendees, who will benefit from linking the latest clinical and research evidence with the personal accounts of families affected by...

Daniel Brown edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.

At the beginning of May, Lachlan Wilson and Mathew Gullick appeared before the Court of Appeal for the employee, a school's peripatetic music teacher, in a challenge brought by the employer against the decision of the EAT (reported as Brazel v Harpur Trust at [2018] ICR D10) that, in cases involving workers on zero hours contracts, there was no basis to reduce the holiday entitlement of 5.6 weeks under the Working Time Regulations 1998 or to change...

3PB's Berenice Mulvanny acted in a case against a 'vindictive conwoman' who made more than £100,000 on a sugar daddy website by 'catfishing' married men before blackmailing them has been jailed for nearly three years. Reports in the Daily Mail state that Shannon Lee, 21, from Netley Abbey near Southampton, would pose as another woman, whose photos she stole from the Internet, before luring men into sexual and embarrassing conversations. Lee would then threaten to...

3PB's Mark Lomas, a personal injury and clinical negligence specialist, and Chambers Director Stuart Pringle will be participating in the D-Day Commemorative Skydive on Sunday 16th June 2019 to mark 75 years since the D-Day landings and raise vital funds for Alabaré Home For Veterans. Paratroopers were the first soldiers to land on French soil during D-Day - giving this Commemorative event an extra significance. Alabaré’s Homes for Veterans provide supported accommodation to British Armed...

Specialist criminal and regulatory barrister, Jonathan Underhill acting on behalf the local London Borough was successful after a fully contested trial on the issues’ of proper HMO classification and ownership/ control. At any one time there were up to 8 people living in a single bedroom flat. The Defendant was investigated and formed part of Chanel 5’s series “Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords”. Jonathan helped to secure guilty verdicts on all charges, a five figure sum...

On 3rd June at Bristol Crown Court Dario Carboni changed his plea to guilty in respect of the manslaughter of pensioner Kenneth Kiley in July last year. This plea came at the close of the Prosecution case following complicated pre-trial legal argument and 10 days of evidence. Despite denying being the driver of the vehicle involved in the fatal collision with Mr Kiley, and maintaining this throughout the trial, he finally accepted his responsibility once Adam and Gemma...