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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ten specialist members of 200-strong 3PB Barristers will today be training more than 50 lawyers from leading law firm Irwin Mitchell’s highly-regarded Medical Negligence, Family Law, Court of Protection/Public Law and Travel (Serious Injury) teams at 3PB's Colmore Building offices in Birmingham.    

Max Schofield analyses the recent Court of Appeal decision in National Car Parks Ltd v HMRC [2019] concerning parking ticket overpayments and consideration for VAT purposes. Click here to read Max's analysis. Click here to view his profile.

The predatory paedophile who used his reputation as a star-maker to abuse children whilst working as the Youth Development Officer at Southampton Football Club and Peterborough United was convicted of 45 counts of indecent assault against 23 victims. 3PB's Adam Feest QC, who heads the set's crime team, led Berenice Mulvanny for the prosecution in […]

Commercial barrister Christopher Edwards analyses the Court of Appeal decision in Times Travel (UK) v Pakistan International Airlines Corporation and its impact on the criteria of lawful economic duress and reasonableness in commercial contracts. Click here to read Christopher's analysis. Click here to view his profile.