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November Family Law Newsletter - Out Now !

7th November 2025

Welcome to the latest and final newsletter for 2025. It comes hot off the press of some fantastic results for Chambers in the legal directories with record results for the family team. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who gave up their valuable time to provide the feedback, it is very much appreciated.
I hope you have enjoyed our newsletter this year. We thank you for following us in 2025 and we will be back with more updates, articles and innovative ideas in the new year! Please do get in touch if you would like to get involved.

3PB Barristers’ Family Law team has achieved 34 individual rankings (+7 compared with 2025) in this year’s Chambers and Partners edition published today. 29 of our family law barristers are ranked across 5 Circuits: in London, the Midlands, North Eastern, South Eastern and Western. Our team retains its Band 1 rankings for both Family Children and Family Finance in the Midlands, and its Band 2 ranking in Western. In our Midland clients’ own words "The...

3PB’s family law team has been confirmed for its excellence in the Legal 500 2026 edition published today, remaining in top tier in the Midlands for Family: children and domestic abuse and for Family: divorce and financial remedy as well as top tier in the Western circuit for Family: children and domestic abuse. The Western team’s family finance barristers are awarded tier 2. 3PB’s family law team has been awarded a total of 70 rankings...

Esther Lieu is appointed as guest lecturer on the University of Birmingham’s MSc in Advanced Child Protection

11th August 2021

3PB’s specialist family law barrister Esther Lieu (pictured here) has recently been appointed a guest lecturer to teach students taking a Master of Science (MSc) in Advanced Child Protection at the University of Birmingham. Esther is described by colleagues, clients and students as ‘outstanding’, ‘supportive’ and ‘knowledgeable’. Formerly counsel on public law children issues, Esther Lieu now exclusively practises within financial remedies and private law children, advising on cases involving financial provision following divorce or...

In Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v K and C [2015] EWCOP 80, MacDonald J held that ‘K’ had the capacity to choose to refuse further medical treatment that would invariably lead to her death. In Birmingham City Council v D (by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor) and W [2016] EWCOP 8, Keehan J considered the role and limitation of parental consent in respect of deprivations of liberty. In Re CS (Termination of...