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3PB Barristers’ Family Law team has achieved 42 individual rankings (+9 compared with 2026), in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners published today. 35 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. Clients comment that "The engagement of...

3PB Barristers’ Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team welcomes an impressive set of results in Chambers and Partners’ 2027 edition published today, with its team achieving a well-deserved Band 2 team ranking for its personal injury barristers in Western. Our Clinical Negligence barristers retain their Band 2 ranking also in Western. The team earns one new individual ranking each for personal injury and clinical negligence, with 5 barrister rankings for personal injury work (4 in...

3PB’s formidable family law team once again tops the Legal 500 rankings with a total of 78 individual rankings – including 9 new individual rankings - across the London, Midlands, South Eastern and Western Circuits. 49 of our barristers are ranked for their Children and Domestic Abuse cases expertise; 28 are acknowledged for their Financial Remedies expertise and one of them is ranked for Private FDR judges and arbitrators expertise. 3PB’s family law team remains...

3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence welcomes 16 rankings across 4 Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western), in the latest Legal 500 edition published today. The team retains its Top Tier ranking for Personal Injury in South Eastern, a Tier 2 ranking in Western and gains a new individual ranking in London bringing its total of Personal Injury London rankings to 4. The team is also ranked for Clinical Negligence in Western. The...

July 2026 Family Law Newsletter - Out Now!

7th July 2026

Welcome to 3PB's Family Law team's newsletter, edited by Amy Beddis. This year is flying by, with another busy quarter here at 3PB family. We have some excellent contributions this month from Scott Sharp, Charles Hogan, Imogen Robins and Andrew Duncan. We invite you to book your place to attend our September Manchester NCDR event and our 3rd Annual Public Law Conference in Southampton in November. Our members continue to feature in reported cases, check out the summaries below and catch up on the brunches you have missed. We hope you enjoy this latest chapter of our newsletter. If you would like to contribute an article please do get in touch with me at [email protected].

March Family Law Newsletter - Out Now

26th March 2026

Welcome to 3PB’s Family Law team’s latest newsletter, edited by Amy Beddis.
Spring is in action and our team have been super busy putting together some excellent articles for you all on the latest issues. This edition is full of interesting topics, debate and important case law updates.
The family team have had a great start to the year with our members appearing in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.
We are all looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our fourth annual Private Law Children and Financial Remedies Conference on 23 April at Millennium Point, Birmingham. Due to popular demand more tickets have been released.
We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter and as ever if you want to be involved or have any feedback please do get in touch.

Five 3PB Birmingham barristers listed in Doyle's Guide

4th March 2026

Five members of 3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) Family Law team have been listed in this year’s Doyle's Guide of the leading Birmingham family law barristers, announced today, 4 March 2026. The list highlights the leading family law barristers practising within Birmingham and the Midlands and is collated through recommendations from solicitors and peers for expertise and abilities within family law. 3PB’s Head of Chambers Elizabeth McGrath KC and Head of Family Vanessa Meachin KC...

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.