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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...

3PB launches its new NCDR family law service

19th June 2025

3PB officially launched its NCDR (Non Court Dispute Resolution) services for family law on Wednesday afternoon (18 June) at 58 Victoria Embankment in London in front of  more than 130 family law solicitors. The large national chambers - with 90 family law barristers - covers the full range of NCDR services including mediation, early neutral evaluation, private FDR hearings and arbitration. The three-hour briefing was billed as "Arbitration in Action" and gave practical tips on...

Oliver Thorne and Nicola Frost qualify as children arbitrators

18th June 2025

3PB are delighted to announce that two more of its family law barristers, Oliver Thorne and Nicola Frost, have both qualified as Children Law Arbitrators, able to hear arbitrations under the Children Scheme. Both are members of the specialist panel of family law arbitrators, managed by Resolution on behalf of the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (“IFLA”). Nicola Frost is a specialist family law barrister, arbitrator, now dual qualified in both the Children and Financial...

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...

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,...

3PB’s Family Law Team exceeds expectations in Chambers & Partners 2024

19th October 2023

3PB Barristers’ Family Law team has been rewarded with 22 individual rankings in this year’s Chambers and Partners edition published today. The team is once again rewarded with Band 1 rankings for both Family Children and Family Finance in the Midlands. Our barristers also retain their Band 2 ranking in Western. To well-deserved accolades in the London Bar, the team now also adds a ranking in South Eastern. 3PB’s national team thanks the clients and...

3PB Family Law team promoted to TOP TIER in three Legal 500 categories

4th October 2023

3PB’s Family Law team now tops 3 categories in the Legal 500. The team has been awarded 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. 36 of our family barristers have been awarded a total of 51 rankings...

3PB Family team goes from strength to strength in the Legal 500

30th September 2022

3PB Barristers congratulates its Family Law team for another strong set of results in the Legal 500 directory published on Wednesday. The Legal 500 attributed 39 individual rankings to 29 of our barristers across 4 Circuits (in London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western). Our team is seen by clients as the ‘go-to chambers for family work with a good range of practitioners from junior through to silks’... an ‘excellent set of chambers [that] also...

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

29th September 2022

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...

Another excellent year for our family law team in the Legal Directories

23rd October 2021

3 Paper Buildings (3PB) wish to congratulate its Family Law team for another set of outstanding results in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 directories. Ranked by both directories in the Midlands and Western Circuits, our team has seen both its Matrimonial and Children teams promoted to Band 1 in the Midlands by Chambers and Partners. The Legal 500 attributed 36 individual rankings to 27 of our barristers – including 8 new rankings. Chambers...

  Welcome to the 3PB family newsletter In our fourth family group newsletter, we bring you a round up of our brunch talks and topical articles, news, and details of our forthcoming events. We hope you enjoy reading this and please do contact us if we can help with further information or enquiries. Details of upcoming events here Lucy Hendry QC enjoys her first days as newly-appointed Silk  Family barrister Lucy Hendry QC started her first day as Queen's Counsel...