3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to welcome family law barrister Amy Lush back to chambers from maternity leave from 6 October 2025. Amy specialises in all aspects of private children and financial remedies law including financial disputes under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, private law children proceedings including applications for enforcement and variation of child arrangements orders, and non-molestation and occupation orders. Ranked by Chambers and Partners for Family: Children on the Western...
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3PB are delighted to announce that one of its 90-strong specialist family barristers, Emma Harman, has been appointed to the Circuit Bench. Her Honour Judge (HHJ) Harman will sit in Portsmouth and Southampton Courts, hearing Family cases. Called to the bar in 2003, Emma was appointed a Deputy District Judge in 2022 and a Recorder in 2023, authorised to hear family law cases on the Western Circuit. With over 20 years’ experience in family law,...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to announce that 3PB family law barristers Nicola Frost and Paul Froud have been appointed as Fee-Paid Judges of the First-tier Tribunal. Nicola Frost is assigned to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). Paul Froud is assigned to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber, within the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal. Their appointments are effective from 22nd September and will run on four-year renewable...
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3PB family law silk June Venters KC, leading 3PB family barrister Rachel Temple (pictured here, left to right), successfully acted for the father in the Court of Appeal case of The Father, Mother, E a child (by his Children’s Guardian) and Aimee Dover Case No: CA-2025-001859. This judgment clarifies the scope of judicial criticism against any individual witness, whether a lay person or a professional, within family court proceedings. The case follows earlier children proceedings...
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