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3PB’s specialist intellectual property barrister Mark Wilden is currently appearing in the Competition Appeal Tribunal in a case involving the legality of selling pre-owned Office and Windows software. The two-day hearing, running from 9-10 September 2025, looks to resolve the key question of whether certain components of Windows and Office fall outside the EU’s copyright exhaustion rules for software, which allows the resale of perpetual software licenses. This important decision could significantly effect the legal...
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3PB’s specialist construction and commercial barrister, Rob Dawson, has been confirmed as a guest speaker at Healy’s construction event on Friday, 26th September. Rob Dawson will share insights from the front line of disputes and adjudications, bringing valuable case-law context to the discussion. Rob Dawson has a broad practice across commercial and construction, but with a particular emphasis on construction and engineering disputes and associated professional liability matters, as well as general commercial litigation disputes. The...
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3PB’s specialist family law arbitrator, mediator, private FDR judge, HH Stephen Wildblood KC will chair Family Law Week's annual Public Children Law Conference, taking place this year on Tuesday, 30Th September at Millenium Point in Birmingham. Stephen Wildblood KC, who is also Editor-in-Chief of Family Law Week (FLW), will also be joined by Jonathan Sampson KC to present an analysis of recent public law cases and will then be a panellist in the session on...
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3PB’s specialist family barrister Amy Beddis has been confirmed to speak on the expert panel for this year’s ‘Family Law: A Year in Review’ event on 11th September. Amy will be discussing maintenance in financial remedy cases. This will be an evening of topical debate, discussions and networking with Counsel, clerks, junior practitioners, and qualified Family Solicitors. All speakers will go through the contextual background of each topic as well as an overview of the...
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Read our Employment law newsletter edited by Robin Pickard, with analysis from Robin, Sarah Clarke, Stephen Wyeth and Sarah Bowen on the following cases:
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- Aslam v Transport UK London Bus Ltd (formerly known as Abellio London Ltd) [2025] EAT 113
- Leicester City Council v Bindu Parmar [2025] EWCA Civ 952
- CX v Secretary of State for Justice [2025] EAT 114
- Mesuria v Eurofins Forensics Services Ltd [2025] EAT 103
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to announce that property and chancery barrister Ashley Blood-Halvorsen and family law barrister Rachel Bloxwich have been appointed as Deputy District Judges, both on the Midlands Circuit. Ashley Blood-Halvorsen is a specialist property and chancery barrister, with particular emphasis in contentious probate, TOLATA and insolvency. Ashley was called to the bar in 2017 and qualified as a trust and estate practitioner in 2024. To contact or instruct Ashley,...
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William Hansen, Thomas O'Donohoe and Gemma Ralph appointments to the Attorney General's London Panel
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to announce that William Hansen, Thomas O'Donohoe and Gemma Ralph have been appointed to the Attorney General’s London Panel for a period of five years, commencing today Monday 1st September 2025. William has been re-appointed to the London A Panel, Tom has been promoted to the London B Panel and Gemma has been appointed to the London C Panel. William Hansen regularly acts for a variety of government...
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3 Paper Buildings (3PB Barristers) have been shortlisted for Regional Chambers of the Year 2025 at the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards. The awards takes place on Thursday, 13 November 2025 at the Old Billingsgate. The shortlist can be found here
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We are delighted to announce that 3PB’s Andrew Duncan and Matiss Krumins have been shortlisted at the Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards 2025. They have been chosen as finalists for the Family Law Case of the Year. Matiss Krumins is a specialist family barrister at 3PB with expertise in public law children’s proceedings and judicial review. He is regularly instructed in serious child protection, cross-border and emergency cases, and has appeared in leading decisions up to...
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3PB crime and regulatory barrister Jonathan Underhill, who is a specialist in financial crime, successfully prosecuted a defendant for possession of £800,000 in cryptocurrency and £20,000 in cash. The D was charged with money laundering offences relating to Bitcoin and other crypto-assets as well as cash stemming from the sale of cannabis edibles on the Dark Web. Jonathan was instructed by the Complex Case Unit of Wessex CPS to advise on the case from the...
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3PB’s Intellectual Property specialist barrister Victoria Jones acted for Google LLC, in an Appeal to the Appointed Person. Victoria Jones acted for Google LLC, a respondent to an appeal brought by Shorts International Ltd against Google's successful opposition to its application to register “SHORTIE” as a trade mark. In the appeal to the appointed person, the original decision of the hearing officer was upheld with the appointed person finding that the hearing officer had not erred in refusing...
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Stephen Wildblood KC writes and directs a short film, lasting 5 ½ minutes, telling the story of a mother (Angie) who has retained two children (James [12] and Martha [4]) in New York against the wishes of their English father, Zac. Angie has been in New York with the children for two months and wishes to remain there with them. Zac wants them all to return to London, where they had been living as a...
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