• Property and Estates team welcomes 11 rankings in Chambers & Partners’ 2025 edition

      3PB’s national Property and Estates team has been rewarded in Chambers and Partners’ latest set of results with 11 rankings spanning its Real Estate Litigation, Chancery, Construction, Planning and Social Housing expertise. While our barristers attract praise for their knowledge, commercial awareness, advocacy and client skills, our real estate litigators earn a team ranking in Band 2 in South Eastern. Headed by Chambers Director Mark Heath, the clerks are complimented for being 'very responsive and...

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    • 3PB Property and Estates Team celebrated in the latest Legal 500 edition

      3PB is delighted to announce a total of 15 rankings for its property, estates and chancery specialists in the Legal 500 2025 edition. The team retains its Tier 2 ranking for Property and Construction in South Eastern; and its Tier 3 ranking for Property and Construction in Western. New rankings have been gained for social housing; agricultural property work; and property and construction work. The team is acknowledged as "‘an excellent set’ with ‘a number of excellent...

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      3PB Property and Estates team celebrates 22 accolades in the latest Legal Directories publications

      3PB is delighted to announce excellent rankings for its Property and Estates team across both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories. The team achieved a total of 22 individual rankings across four of our core circuits (Western, South Eastern, Midlands and London), as well as the team celebrating Tier 2 rankings for Property and Construction in South Eastern; Tier 2 rankings for Chancery, Tax and Probate in the Midlands and a Tier 3 ranking...

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      3PB excels with 73 rankings in Chambers and Partners 2023

      3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) has been awarded a record number of rankings in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 73 accolades for its barristers. The national heavyweight chambers achieves its rankings in London, South Eastern, Western and the Midlands - in 18 categories of law. Earlier this year, 3PB also celebrated its first ranking in Chambers and Partners High Net Worth guide. Click here to view the full results...

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      3PB triumphs in latest Legal 500 ratings of the UK's best barristers  

      3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), the UK's third largest chambers, is delighted to report its best rankings yet - totalling 130 - in the Legal 500 2023’s edition published last night, up 12% on last year’s 116. The set has achieved its rankings across 5 large UK regions - or Circuits (London, South Eastern, Western, Midlands and Chester and Wales) - in 21 categories of law. Earlier this year, 3PB also celebrated its first rankings...

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      Joshua Dubin comments about cowboy builders and victims’ rights for MailonLine

      The website MailonLine carried a detailed feature yesterday about homeowners who were left thousands of pounds out of pocket at the hands of their 'cowboy' builders. Their accounts come amid growing calls for the Government to introduce a statutory licensing scheme which regulates builders and protects customers seeking redress for poor workmanship. 3PB property barrister Joshua Dubin (pictured here) said in the article that “one of the important pitfalls for the building industry was the...

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    • Is “Aster” the new “Daejan”? Joshua Dubin helps clients to resist their landlord's appeal

      Aster Communities v Chapman and others [2020] UKUT 177 (LC) Judgment published 15.07.2020 Joshua Dubin has helped his clients to resist their landlord’s appeal against the imposition of conditions that will enable them to instruct an expert to assess whether certain repair works are necessary. The Upper Tribunal has upheld a decision to impose conditions when granting Aster dispensation from its service charge consultation requirements. Aster applied for dispensation because it omitted the total replacement...

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    • 3PB’s Joshua Dubin warns local authorities about their right-to-buy lease terms when major works are being planned

      3PB’s specialist Property and Regulatory Law Barrister Joshua Dubin warns local authorities about their right-to-buy lease terms when major works are being planned. Piechnik v Oxford City Council [2020] EWHC 960 (QB) – Mrs Justice Tipples DBE In a judgment with significant implications for right-to-buy (‘RTB’) long leaseholders, the High Court has held that a local authority lessor does not have an extended right of entry implied into such leases in order to carry out works...

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    • The Tenant Fees Act 2019 to be discussed at 3PB seminar on 15 May

      On 11th April 2019, the Tenant Fees Act 2019 (Commencement No.3) Regulations 2019 were issued. Louise Worton will be discussing this Act, together with the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, at a seminar on 15th May 2019 in Birmingham. Joshua Dubin will be addressing Adverse Possession in the FTT.

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    • Court of Appeal upholds unlawfulness of age assessment: Martin Westgate QC and 3PB barrister Joshua Dubin win for a second time

      Martin Westgate QC, of Doughty Street Chambers, and Joshua Dubin, of 3PB’s Public & Regulatory Law Group, have won a second Court of Appeal victory in a young Eritrean woman’s challenge to Bedford Borough Council’s refusal to provide her with services. To read more about the case, please click here.

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    • 3PB Oxford joins in Christmas spirit with Secret Santa

      3PB joined other Oxford businesses Blake Morgan solicitors, AECOM (Abingdon construction consultants) OUP (Oxford University Press), Thames Water and Oxford Architects, in buying Christmas presents for children in need. Local Social Services in Oxford identified disadvantaged young people who would benefit from a gift and over 160 presents were given out during the Christmas period. 3PB barristers and staff who took part were Ed Ross, Andrew MacPhail, Elaine Strachan, Emma Griffiths, Joshua Dubin, Tom Tyler, James...

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