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3PB civil law and matrimonial finance barrister Rachel Bale (pictured here), who co-founded the support network Her Bar with Nasreen Shah from Great James Street Chambers, hosted a landmark Her Bar conference last Saturday 17 May 2025 at The View in The Royal College of Surgeons of England in London which was organised specifically to assist women barristers, both practising and aspiring counsel. The day welcomed over 100 attendees and featured a distinguished line-up of...
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3PB criminal defence barrister Nick Robinson (pictured here) represented his client who was charged with multiple offences including rape and sexual assault, all of which were said to have happened over 15 years ago. This was a complex trial due to the number of complaints and the historic nature of the allegations. Nick drafted a detailed defence statement, which resulted in the disclosure of critically important evidence. This included sensitive material relating to an earlier...
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3PB Barristers’ specialist criminal law barristers, Tom Evans and Holly Fagan, have secured acquittals for their clients (C and D), after successful submissions of no case to answer. On a summer’s evening in 2022, four young people were in a car driving around Ryde, Isle of Wight. The front seat passengers (A and B) were in possession of what looked like a semi-automatic machine gun. A and B fired ball-bearings from the gun injuring several members...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to welcome leading family barrister, Peter Wilkinson, to its 90-strong team of family barristers. Peter will be based from 3PB's London office in the Inner Temple. Peter regularly represents clients in the Family Court, High Court and Appeal Courts and also sits as a part-time judge in the First Tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) and in the Family Court for private children and financial remedy proceedings....
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3PB's family barrister and silk, June Venters KC, delivered a webinar for LexisNexis on public law children cases. The webinar, which went live online today, discusses the Public Children Update 2025, with a specific focus on significant cases from the past 12 months. The webinar is designed to appeal to in-house local authority lawyers, solicitors and barristers, and the recording offers June's advice and serves as a signpost for various issues that may arise in...
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3PB property, housing and agricultural estates barrister Oliver Nunn was awarded the Mary Attenborough Award for Volunteering at the University of Leicester at their prestigious annual Alumni Awards. Dr Glynis Wright MBE, a former president of Leicestershire Law Society and current member of the University's Council, is seen here presenting the award to Oliver (credit: RedPix Photography). The award highlighted Oliver's many contributions to the University's Law School and his promotion of social mobility and...
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Last week judgment was handed down in the landmark case of Redcar Cleveland v MA Albon and Anor. The case saw 3PB's family barrister and silk June Venters KC's client, a vulnerable mother in public law children proceedings, succeed against the notorious, unregulated sperm donor Robert Albon, better known by his pseudonym "Joe Donor". Albon, an American national, claims to have fathered over 180 children worldwide through his unregulated sperm donation activities — often carried...
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3PB criminal defence barrister Nick Robinson (pictured here) defended MC who the prosecution alleged had non-consensual sex with his heavily pregnant girlfriend, the complainant. During the sex, he allegedly strangled her. The complainant had global learning difficulties. It was the defendant’s case that the sex and strangulation was consensual, and the complainant had been manipulated by her mother into making false allegations against MC. MC was unanimously acquitted of all charges by the jury, following...
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3PB’s specialist education, equality, and public law barrister Alice de Coverley will speak at the AI Edify webinar on Monday, May 19th. The event will take place from 4pm to 5:30pm. Alice will join Bianca Farthing of AI Edify and Baljinder Bath of 4PB to explore legal aspects, including consent, data protection (GDPR), and intellectual property, alongside vital safeguarding concerns such as student privacy, AI monitoring, online safety, and the risks of AI-powered decision-making. The...
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3PB's sports law barrister, Sam Shurey (pictured here), discusses his experience in sports law and offers advice to aspiring sports lawyers. In the blog, Sam describes a typical day in his life and provides insights into what makes working in the sports industry unique. He shares his journey in sports law and offers valuable information on what constitutes a good advocate. Sam suggests in the blog, "The best have mastered what can feel like an...
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3PB Barristers’ specialist criminal law barrister, Holly Fagan, has secured acquittals for her client, accused of harassing two people causing them to fear violence. Holly’s young client, A, heard that the first Complainant (C1) was spreading rumours about him and confronted her in a night club. This did not achieve anything so he tried to speak to her father (C2), who he knew, in the hope that he could help them resolve the situation. The allegations...
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As part of her degree, Sophie Rogers (pictured here) - a third-year LLB Law student at the University of Winchester - has just finished a six-month placement with 3PB's Crime and Regulatory Crime team in their Winchester office. This is the first such placement run by 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) and may well be one of the very first such initiatives run by a barristers chambers in the UK. Jodie Mittell KC, who co-heads 3PB's...
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