News for: Matthew Curtis

3PB’s employment and discrimination law team celebrates a well-earned new team ranking in London in recognition of the high-profile cases its members represent clients in, and the great results they achieve. Impressively, the team’s individual rankings in London have increased from 1 to 5 ranked members in 2 years. The team retains its band 1 rankings in South Eastern and Western and the band 2 ranking it achieved last year in the Midlands. It’s another...

3PB’s employment and discrimination law team is delighted to be rewarded with 30 individual rankings in the Legal 500’s latest edition published today. 16 of the team’s 30 juniors are now ranked in the publication, across the London, South Eastern, Western and Midlands Circuits. The team remains top tier in Western with 12 individual rankings and top tier in South Eastern with 5 rankings. 3PB retains its tier 2 ranking in the Midlands with 4 juniors...

March Employment Law Newsletter - Out Now

31st March 2026

Delighted to be publishing our March 2026 Employment Law Newsletter, edited by Joseph England, featuring a wealth of employment news and analysis from Joe, Grace Nicholls, Emma McIlveen, Colin McDevitt, Matthew Curtis and Gareth Graham on the following cases / topics:
- The legal risks of employer-backed egg freezing in the UK
- Whitaker v White Rose Academies Trust & Luminate Education Group [2026] EAT 43
- Dobson v North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust [2026] EAT 32
- Bibescu v Clare Jenner Ltd t/a Jenner’s [2026] EAT 30
- Morgan v Morgan & ors [2026] EWHC 384 (Ch)

3PB’s employment and discrimination law team welcomes another strong set of results in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with 20 individual rankings for 16 of its barristers in London, Western, South Eastern and the Midlands Circuits. The team celebrates its 3rd Team ranking, in the Midlands this time, and remains in Band 1 in Western and South Eastern. Our barristers are congratulated for achieving 3 individual rankings in London (+2 year on year)....

3PB’s ‘best in their field’ employment and discrimination law team is delighted to have joined a select few chambers to be ranked in the Midlands in this area of law. The leading team retains its top tier team rankings in the Western and South Eastern Circuits. Clients comment on 'an exceptional chambers, from the first point of contact with the clerks through to the end of the matter’ with ‘their growth a testament to their...

June Employment Law Newsletter - Out Now!

2nd June 2025

Welcome to the latest edition of our employment law team’s newsletter, edited by Ben Amunwa - in which we proudly announce our upcoming Inaugural Employment Law Conference in Birmingham on 16 October 2025.
While our analysis section features a note from Ben Amunwa exploring ‘When the withdrawal of a claim takes effect', our contributors this month also include Simon Tibbitts, Matthew Curtis, Gareth Graham and Daniel Brown on the following cases:
- Handa v The Station Hotel (Newcastle) Ltd & Ors [2025] EAT 62
- Melki v Bouygues E and S Contracting UK Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 585
- XY v AB [2025] EAT 66
- Woodhead v WTTV Ltd & Anor | [2025] EWHC 1128 (KB)

March Employment Law Newsletter - out now!

31st March 2025

Welcome to our employment law team’s March newsletter, edited by Joseph England, featuring analysis from Joseph, Gareth Graham, Colin McDevitt and Matthew Curtis on the following cases:
- Kau Media Group Ltd v Hart [2025] EWHC 553 (KB)
- Gourlay v West Dunbartonshire Council [2025] EAT 29
- W v Highways England and others, 18th February 2025, [2025] EAT 18, Lord Fairley
- Kostrova v McDermott International INC and CB&I UK Ltd, 13th March 2025, [2025] EAT 35, Lord Fairley
- Kamphues v Venator Materials UK Ltd, 19th March 2025, [2025] EAT 30, HHJ Tayler
- Kinch v Compassion in World Farming International, 26th March 2025, [2025] EAT 41, Lord Fairley
- Impact Recruitment Services Ltd v Korpysa [2025] EAT 22

3PB’s employment law team is celebrating another strong set of results in Chambers and Partners’ 2025 edition published today, with a total of 18 individual rankings for 16 of our employment barristers in London, Western, South Eastern and the Midlands Circuits While clients’ comments on our individual barristers once again testify to their dedication and excellence, our clerking team, led by Russell Porter, also attracts much praise and is seen as 'absolutely brilliant and going...

3PB barristers and its Employment and Discrimination team have cause for celebration as they are confirmed as a top tier team in the Western and South Eastern Circuits in the latest Legal 500 edition. Praised by clients as “‘an excellent set’ with an employment team ‘packed full of top-tier barristers’ and an excellent track record for advising across the full spectrum of employment law matters”, 3PB is regarded as “‘a chambers with a wide skill...

Employment and discrimination newsletter - February 2024

29th February 2024

Welcome to 3PB's employment law newsletter, edited by Craig Ludlow. We celebrate Matthew Curtis’ appointment as part-time Deputy District Judge. This month our newsletter includes analysis from Craig, Sarah Clarke and Jo Laxton on the following cases: Hargreaves v (1) Evolve Housing & Support (2) Mr Simon McGrath; Jones v The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care EA-2022-000744-JOJ; and Bauhaus Educational Services Limited v Elemide [2023] EAT 161.
Mark Green follows up an important change in the law since his £350,000 win in the associative indirect discrimination case of Follows. S19A Equality Act 2010 expressly permits such claims and therefore provides important clarity for carers and others who may suffer indirect discrimination by association.

Matthew Curtis and Berenice Mulvanny appointed as part-time Deputy District Judges

19th February 2024

3PB are delighted to announce that employment barrister Matthew Curtis and criminal law barrister, Berenice Mulvanny (pictured here) have been appointed part-time Deputy District Judges - to officiate on the Western Circuit (to hear civil cases), and in the Magistrates Courts respectively. Berenice was called to the Bar in 2009. She is a specialist practitioner instructed on the most serious offences on the Western Circuit, including murder, rape and other serious sexual offences, fraud and...

3PB’s Employment Team celebrates increased individual Chambers & Partners rankings and retaining Band 1 rankings in 2 Circuits

19th October 2023

3PB Barristers congratulates its Employment and discrimination law team for achieving 3 new rankings in the Midlands, while retaining its Band 1 ranking in two Circuits (Western and South Eastern) in Chambers and Partners’ 2024 edition published today. The team increases its rankings to a total of 18 individual rankings, up from 15 last year, in London, Western and South Eastern, and adds the Midlands as a Circuit in which its expertise is recognised. Client...