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3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) The Rt Hon Michael Tomlinson KC, Christopher Edwards and pupil barrister Emily Hayward have all contributed to the latest edition of ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes Magazine. The Rt Hon Michael Tomlinson KC is featured in this issue’s popular “60-Seconds With” segment in which industry experts answer a series of quick-fire questions, giving readers an insight into their thoughts on and beyond their work. In his interview, published on page 10, Michael discusses...
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National chambers 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) has increased its annual pupillage award for its current recruitment for 2026 to £60,000 from £40,000, joining other prominent barristers’ chambers in announcing increases this year. This comprises a £30,000 grant and £30,000 in guaranteed earnings, paid monthly in advance. Additional benefits are valued at approximately £17,000 and include Private Health Insurance, IT support with discounts on technology, and access to online legal resources (LexisNexis PSL+, Lexis+ Ai, Westlaw...
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The beginning of this month, December 2024, marked the return to 3PB of commercial, public and information law barrister Mariya Peykova, having spent the last 6 months on a placement at the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’). The ICO offers privacy lawyers, litigation lawyers, or lawyers with regulatory enforcement experience the opportunity to work closely with colleagues within the ICO Legal Services team, working on a wide range of matters, including casework, enforcement, policy work and litigation. Whilst the...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to announce that property, commercial and chancery barrister Thomas Talbot-Ponsonby will officially be appointed as a District Judge from Monday 6 January 2025. District Judge Talbot-Ponsonby will sit on the South Eastern Circuit and be based at the Slough Law Courts. Thomas was called to the Bar in 2011 and was appointed as a Deputy District Judge and a fee-paid Employment Judge in 2021. Before coming to the...
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Imogen Robins MCIarb has re-joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from Pump Court Chambers where she has practised since joining them in 2016. A distinguished family law specialist renowned for her expertise in family finance, Imogen has an exceptional success record in advising high-net-worth (HNW) divorcing couples. Her practice centres on handling complex financial cases which include inherited wealth, property portfolios, family businesses, significant pensions, trusts, and pre-nuptial agreements. Instructed in cases under Schedule 1 of...
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3PB Barristers’ specialist Intellectual Property barrister Mark Wilden has spoken to Virtuoso Legal’s The VIP Podcast to discuss how Intellectual Property can affect the music industry. In the episode, entitled “Balancing Creativity and Law: Navigating Intellectual Property in the Music Industry with Mark Wilden”, Mark joins Virtuoso Legal’s Elizabeth Ward to discuss a range of topics including Mark’s own background in the music industry, how intellectual property law affects creative entities and legal issues of...
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3PB specialist property & housing law barrister, Oliver Nunn, delivered two guest lectures to several hundred Land Law undergraduate students at the University of Leicester, on 28 November 2024. The lectures delivered were on a topic of how the law, both as it currently stands and in reform proposals contained in the Renters Rights Bill tries to balance the competing interests between landlords and tenants, in claims for possession of privately rented residential property, so...
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Welcome to our November 2024 employment law newsletter, edited by Gareth Graham, featuring news from Ben Amunwa, and celebrating our results in Chambers and Partners.
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Our newsletter includes analysis from Gareth Graham, Karen Moss and Andrew MacPhail of the following cases:
- Xie v E’quipe Japan Ltd [2024] EAT 176
- De Bank Haycocks v ADP RPO UK Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 1291
- MacLennan v The British Psychological Society [2024] EAT 166 -
3PB's commercial and property barrister Alex Whatley has written an article called 'After the gold rush - chasing debts' (Alphier Capital LLP v Blyvoor Gold Capital Ltd)' for Lexis Nexis. In the article Alex analyses this High Court judgment concerning two cross applications for strike-out and adding a party, the primary dispute related to an unpaid debt for investment consultancy services and the assignment of the sums due. The court decided that the prohibition of...
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Oliver Nunn teamed up with Browne Jacobson’s Leah Jones, Naomi De Silva and Samantha Harms to deliver in Cardiff on 21 November a day’s training for the Ministry of Justice Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service providers, as part of the HLPAS Support Service. While Samantha Harms considered the benefits of embedding O Shaped values in working practices, Oliver Nunn provided a legal update, an analysis of current trends in possession work in the County Court...
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3PB's commercial and property barrister Alex Whatley has written an analysis of Advanced Multi-Technology for Medical Industry & Ors v Uniserve Limited & Ors [2024] EWHC 1725 (Ch), in which The High Court considered the circumstances in which an agent could bind its principal in making representations and variations in commercial contract agreements. The Claimant, (“Hitex”), was a manufacturer of face masks used during the Covid pandemic. The Defendant, (“Uniserve”), had agreed to purchase 80...
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On 21 November 2024, the High Court handed down judgment in R (SAG & others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 2984 (Admin), an expedited judicial review challenge to the government’s ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) system, following a hearing on 13 and 14 November 2024. The default position of the Home Office is to grant UK visas subject to a NRPF condition that prohibits most migrants from accessing welfare...
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