3PB family newsletter is out now featuring news and a round up of our recent brunch series
12th June 2020
The 3PB family team brings you a round-up of the latest news and a summary of the talks from our recent series of brunch talks.
This issue includes contributions from or news about Vanessa Meachin QC, Aimee Fox, Amy Beddis, Gemma Chapman, Emma Harman, Emma Griffiths, Michael George, Antonida Kocharova, James Legg, Hamish Dunlop, Sarah Jennings, Theresa Lim, Adeo Fraser, Nicola Frost, Hannah Bush, and Steven Howard as well as details of our upcoming events.
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Poppy May Watson (call 2020), a family barrister based in Southampton, has joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) and will practice from the national chambers' Bournemouth and Winchester offices. Poppy has a busy caseload and practises exclusively in child law - be that private law, care proceedings or adoption - so acting in both privately funded and publicly funded cases. Her workload routinely involves cases with allegations of Parental Alienation, Non-Accidental Injury (NAI, NAHI and death...
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3PB are delighted to announce that two more of its family law barristers, Sara Lewis KC and Jane Withington (pictured here, left to right) have qualified as Children Law Arbitrators, able to hear arbitrations under the Children Scheme. Both are now members of the specialist panel of family law arbitrators, managed by Resolution on behalf of the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (“IFLA”). Sara and Jane join 15 other family law barristers at the national...
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In MA v WK [2025] EWFC 499, the Family Court (Cusworth J) considered whether Nikkah ceremonies conducted in England but not compliant with the statutory formalities of the Marriage Act 1949 could become valid marriages through subsequent registration in Pakistan. The applications were brought under s.55(1) of the Family Law Act 1986 seeking declarations as to marital status. Background Three applicants had each participated in Islamic Nikkah ceremonies in England that did not comply with the formal...
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3PB’s June Venters KC has written an article titled ‘Re-centring procedural integrity and gender neutrality in private law children proceedings: lessons from Re E' for Family Law Journal. She explores one of the most significant recent examinations of the conduct and integrity of private law children proceedings. The lessons of Re E are stark, reaffirming that procedural integrity is not merely an administrative preference, but the essential foundation of justice in family law. To read...
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