News for: Hamish Dunlop

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 Barristers welcomes 6 rankings for 5 of its Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence barristers in London and in the Western Circuit. The team has secured a new ranking for Personal Injury in the Western Circuit, while maintaining its Band 2 position for Clinical Negligence in the Western too. Our individual barristers are praised for their outstanding advocacy and expert skills across the board. The clerking team, led by “very communicative and approachable” Practice Director...

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...

The 2026 Legal 500 edition marks another outstanding set of results for 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team. Clients laud 3PB as ‘fantastic chambers‘, with ‘barristers in the field of clinical negligence […] excellent and extremely knowledgeable in their field‘, identifying the team as ‘first choice chambers for clinical negligence’. The team ‘offers a wide range of expert counsel in the personal injury department who are always ready to assist‘. Clients conclude that '3PB...

June Family Law Newsletter Out Now

4th June 2025

Welcome to our quarterly 3PB family team newsletter, edited by Amy Beddis.
In this edition, we celebrate Aimee Fox and Amy Beddis becoming joint heads of our family finance team and welcome new tenants Peter Wilkinson and Shan Parker. Analysis is provided by Nicola Frost, Andrew J. Duncan, Rachel Bale, David Beatson and Victoria Holland. Our newsletter also features the reported cases that June Venters KC, Andrew J. Duncan, Gemma Chapman, Laurie-Elizabeth Ketley and Paul Froud recently acted in. Our forthcoming events and links to past family law brunch resources are included.

Michelle Marnham and Hamish Dunlop will be attending the Child Brain Injury Conference organised by The Brain Injury Group

16th January 2025

3PB’s Head of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Michelle Marnham will be chairing the Child Brain Injury Conference, organised by the Brain Injury Group. 3PB’s Hamish Dunlop, is also set to speak at the conference and will present a legal update, offering practical advice based on child brain injury cases. The Brain Injury Group provides support for individuals and families affected by brain injuries. They have in-house advisors and a network of trusted professionals with...

3PB Barristers are delighted to announce 5 rankings for 4 of its Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence barristers in London and in the Western Circuit. As well as gaining one Personal Injury ranking in London, the group has retained its Band 2 ranking for Clinical Negligence in Western, and attracted much praise from clients and peers alike, including for the “excellent and accommodating” service of its clerking team, led by David Snook. Head of Group...

3PB Barristers’ Family Law team has achieved 27 individual rankings (+5 compared with 2024) in this year’s Chambers and Partners edition published today. 23 of our family law barristers are ranked across 5 Circuits: in London, the Midlands, North Eastern, South Eastern and Western. While our team is once again rewarded with Band 1 rankings for both Family Children and Family Finance in the Midlands and retains its Band 2 ranking in Western, our family...

Described in the Legal 500’s latest edition as “‘a fantastic set’ that assists both claimants and defendants with all kinds of personal injury claims, from catastrophic injury to industrial disease”; with “‘excellent counsel at the top with good experience’, offering expertise across the full spectrum of clinical negligence litigation”, 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team has much to celebrate. Achieving a total of 16 rankings across 4 Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and...

3PB’s family law team remains at the top of its league in the Legal 500 2025 edition, achieving top tier in the Midlands for Family: children and domestic violence and for Family: divorce and financial remedy as well as top tier in the Western circuit for Family: children and domestic violence. The Western team’s family finance barristers are awarded tier 2. The team has achieved a total of 56 rankings across 4 Circuits (in London,...

Hamish Dunlop writes for Family Law about Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA)

20th September 2024

3PB Barrister’s Hamish Dunlop writes for Family Law Week about Financial remedy after a foreign divorce: Is Part III MFPA still true to its purpose? (familylaw.co.uk) Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA) was enacted just over 40 years ago. The legislation empowered English Courts to provide financial relief to parties who had a substantial connection with England & Wales but had divorced abroad. Its clear and admirable intention was to alleviate...

Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Newsletter - March 2024

14th March 2024

Michelle Marnham edits our Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence newsletter, with analysis from David Kemeny, Tom Webb, Charles Fulton, Gemma Ralph, Hamish Dunlop and Jack Felvus of the following cases: Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company Limited [2024] UKSC 6, Pearson -v- Secretary of State for Defence [2024] EWCA Civ 150, Juj v John Lewis Partnership plc [2023] EWCA Civ 1507, R (Peiris) v First-tier Tribunal, CICA & Secretary of State for Justice [2023] EWCA Civ 1527 and Paul and Another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1.