Specialist personal injury barristers working across the UK
3PB covers the full range of Personal Injury claims including public liability, industrial disease, employers’ liability, armed forces, occupiers’ liability, transport, travel and RTA claims. The set has 35 personal injury barristers - and 2 pupil barristers - able to conduct cases at every level, from the simplest to the most complex, high-value claims.
We act both for employers and employees in relation to industrial accidents, industrial disease (including asbestos related and other respiratory diseases, carcinogens, noise induced hearing loss and work related upper limb disorders) assaults at work and claims involving psychological injury through harassment, bullying and stress at work.
As a specialist personal injury team in chambers, we have a long track record in a variety of specialist areas including child abuse (advising local authorities and other institutional defendants as well as individual claimants), deliberate injury (including physical and sexual assault and homicide), injury caused by animals, injury suffered during sporting or leisure activities and holiday claims.
Members of the team offer expertise in marine accidents, including both convention claims for passengers and employees injured at sea and also in claims involving air and rail transport.
Our team includes a large number of barristers who act in catastrophic injury claims, from brain and spinal cord injury to mesothelioma and in claims involving cross jurisdictional issues.
Clients include both claimants and defendants. Chambers routinely acts for law firms, local authorities, insurers, self-insured companies and trade unions. Our work for insurers includes cases where there are dishonest or fraudulent claims and on policy litigation.
The breadth and depth of our experience enables us to offer appropriate Counsel for any value of claim. Most members will act under conditional fee arrangements in appropriate cases and we have team members available to work out of any of our six offices in London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester whether for face-to-face meetings or using our state-of-the-art technology for remote meetings.
Legal 500 2024 describes 3PB as a "simply a fantastic chambers with a real specialty in personal injury claims. They punch well above their weight and are regarded as on a par with, if not better than some, London sets. They have a fantastic spread of exceptional personal injury barristers at all levels.’ The Personal Injury group is a “a wealth of technical experts” and "well organised" with the barristers being rated as the “go-to chambers that acts for claimants and defendants in all manner of personal injury cases” Legal 500 2024 lists 6 of 3PB's Personal injury team as Leading Juniors, with 11 rankings all together. 3PB is described as a “very helpful and friendly set of chambers, always willing to go above and beyond to accommodate client's needs." The team are rated as having a “wide range of expertise at all levels to accommodate area and budget. Excellent coverage and always professional and efficient.” Legal 500 states that ‘3PB offers superb training and does its best to accommodate training. They locate counsel at short notice and is a superb chamber.’
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Our Personal Injury Barristers...
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Described in the Legal 500’s latest edition as “‘a fantastic set’ that assists both claimants and defendants with all kinds of personal injury claims, from catastrophic injury to industrial disease”; with “‘excellent counsel at the top with good experience’, offering expertise across the full spectrum of clinical negligence litigation”, 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team has much to celebrate. Achieving a total of 16 rankings across 4 Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), one of the UK's largest chambers, is celebrating this year again its rankings - totalling 167 - in the Legal 500 2025’s edition published today, a 15% increase on last year’s 145. The set is ranked in 23 areas of law, across 4 UK Circuits: London, South Eastern, Western and the Midlands. 3PB’s barristers are also ranked in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. The Legal 500 acknowledges 3PB...
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Lucy Bill, specialist personal injury and clinical negligence barrister at 3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), has written for ARAG on fixed recoverable costs in low value clinical negligence claims. In the article Lucy discusses recent FRC reforms partially influenced by the doubling of Claimant costs for low value clinical negligence cases and what this could mean for such cases in the future. Lucy concludes by encouraging practitioners to gain an understanding of the upcoming changes...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) and its personal injury and clinical negligence teams, led by Michelle Marnham, are delighted to be hosting an Oktoberfest celebration in London in October 2024, alongside law firm Slater and Gordon, with all proceeds going to the Child Brain Injury Trust (CBIT). Taking place on Tuesday 1 October from 6pm at the Munich Cricket Club, 1 Abbey Orchard Street in Victoria, London SW1 this event promises a mini Bavarian wonderland...
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We are delighted to announce that 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) has been shortlisted for 8 awards at The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024, including 4 Juniors, a Silk, 2 Sets of the Year and Chambers Leader of the Year, in the following categories: "Intellectual Property Set of the Year": Victoria Jones, Nicole Bollard, Mark Wilden, Faizul Azman "Set outside London of the Year" : Birmingham, Bristol, Bournemouth, Oxford, Winchester "Chambers Leader of the Year": CEO...
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3PB are pleased to announce that three barristers have become full tenants of the 250-barrister national chambers. Rhiannon Frowde, Kate Davies and Charlotte Steer (pictured left to right from the top) have all successfully completed their probationary tenancies with 3PB, having done all or some of their pupillages at other chambers. Former medical research fellow Rhiannon Frowde (call:2022) is based from 3PB's London office and will continue to focus on clinical negligence and personal injury...
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Michelle Marnham edits our Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence newsletter, with analysis from David Kemeny, Tom Webb, Charles Fulton, Gemma Ralph, Hamish Dunlop and Jack Felvus of the following cases: Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company Limited [2024] UKSC 6, Pearson -v- Secretary of State for Defence [2024] EWCA Civ 150, Juj v John Lewis Partnership plc [2023] EWCA Civ 1507, R (Peiris) v First-tier Tribunal, CICA & Secretary of State for Justice [2023] EWCA Civ 1527 and Paul and Another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1.
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The Court of Appeal on Friday 23 February handed down judgment in the matter of Pearson v Secretary of State for Defence [2024] EWCA Civ 150. The decision can be viewed online here. 3PB’s Tom Webb, instructed by Sarah Dureau of Parker Bullen Solicitors, represented the successful appellant. The case concerned the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS); a no-fault scheme that compensates members of the forces for injuries or illness caused by their service. In...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) barrister Robert Courts MP has been appointed HM's Solicitor General for England and Wales. Robert has been MP for Witney since 2016 and replaces fellow 3PB alumnus Michael Tomlinson KC MP, who moves to the Home Office to be a Minister of State. Robert was called to the Bar in 2003 and is a door tenant (non-working/associate member) at 3 Paper Buildings, where he practiced in personal injury/clinical negligence and public...
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3PB family and private client barrister Luke Nelson (pictured here) successfully appealed an earlier judgment in financial remedy proceedings. Luke's client was the intervenor: the beneficiary of a charging order arising out of a personal injury award due to historical sexual abuse by her uncle, the husband in the present proceedings. He is now serving a custodial sentence for her rape. The appeal was heard in Birmingham before HHJ Ingram, and Luke was instructed by...
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3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team has a lot to celebrate this month. Fresh from organising their inaugural PI and Clin Neg conference in Southampton this month – an all-day conference attended by 140 solicitors – the team can now enjoy its excellent set of results in legal directories the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners 2024. Achieving a total of 18 rankings across four Court Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western),...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) breaks another record in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 81 accolades. The national set is rewarded with rankings in 18 areas of law, in the London Bar as well as in the South Eastern, Western and Midlands Circuits and exceptional comments on its service delivery, including praise for its “sublime service” and its "ability to manage matters in a professional and comprehensive manner second...
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3PB Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Conference - October 2024
Date: Wednesday 16th Oct 2024 Time: 9:45 am - 5:00 pm Venue: Austin Court, 80 Cambridge Street, Birmingham, B1 2NP 3PB is pleased to announce its second Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Conference for 2024, following on from the success of our recent conference in Southampton, we are pleased to announce that we will be running a similar event in Birmingham in October. The free full-day event will begin with coffee and registration at 9:45am and will include lunch. The theme is 'In the Life of a Large Loss Claim', and the day will offer an extensive programme…
Recommendations
Legal 500 2022
‘A very helpful, supportive set, with a breadth and depth of talent in multiple fields.’
‘An exceptional set who always go the extra mile in providing a superb service. On a daily basis, they deliver.’
‘A strong personal injury set‘.
‘A very helpful and supportive set‘.
Legal 500 2021
"[...] a personal injury offering with ‘a wealth of technical experts’".
"As a whole, the team provides advice to both defendant and claimant clients in all aspects of personal injury litigation, with cases ranging from the simplest to the most complex."
Legal 500 2020
3PB is home to a 'wealth of technical experts' who are instructed across a wide range of personal injury cases including complex public liability and RTA claims, particularly those involving multiple injured parties and counterclaims. Mark Lomas is particularly recommended for catastrophic injury claims, while Michelle Marnham has a strong track record in cases involving technical issues as to causation, such as product liability, and Duncan McNair is most notable in employment liability cases.
Legal 500 UK 2020
"A personal injury offering with ‘a wealth of technical experts’."
Practice director David Snook is ‘always on the look-out for ways to innovate’.
"The combined clerks’ room across the set’s six offices is a ‘well-oiled machine’."
Chambers UK 2017
Members of the Personal Injury Group conduct cases at every level from the simplest to the most complex, high-value claims. Clients include both claimants and defendants, generally insurance companies. Most members will act under conditional fee arrangements in appropriate cases.
Legal 500 2017
3PB handles both personal injury and clinical negligence claims across the Western Circuit. The set is also recommended for niche expertise in the areas of veterinary negligence and dental negligence.
always very accurate in their adviceChambers and Partners