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Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Newsletter - March 2024

14th March 2024

Michelle Marnham edits our Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence newsletter, with analysis from David Kemeny, Tom Webb, Charles Fulton, Gemma Ralph, Hamish Dunlop and Jack Felvus of the following cases: Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company Limited [2024] UKSC 6, Pearson -v- Secretary of State for Defence [2024] EWCA Civ 150, Juj v John Lewis Partnership plc [2023] EWCA Civ 1507, R (Peiris) v First-tier Tribunal, CICA & Secretary of State for Justice [2023] EWCA Civ 1527 and Paul and Another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1.

Tom Webb successful in Armed Forces Compensation Scheme case in the Court of Appeal

26th February 2024

The Court of Appeal on Friday 23 February handed down judgment in the matter of Pearson v Secretary of State for Defence [2024] EWCA Civ 150. The decision can be viewed online here. 3PB’s Tom Webb, instructed by Sarah Dureau of Parker Bullen Solicitors, represented the successful appellant. The case concerned the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS); a no-fault scheme that compensates members of the forces for injuries or illness caused by their service. In...

Another bumper for 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team in this year’s legal directories

19th October 2023

3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team has a lot to celebrate this month. Fresh from organising their inaugural PI and Clin Neg conference in Southampton this month – an all-day conference attended by 140 solicitors – the team can now enjoy its excellent set of results in legal directories the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners 2024. Achieving a total of 18 rankings across four Court Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western),...

Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Newsletter

27th June 2023

David Kemeny edits our Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence newsletter, with analysis from Michelle Marnham, David Kemeny, Paul Newman and Dr Tagbo Ilozue of the following cases: Jenkinson v Hertfordshire CC [2023] EWHC 872 (KB); ABC and others v Derbyshire CC and CC Derbyshire Constabulary [2023] EWHC 1337 (KB); Bilal and Malik v St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWCA Civ 605; and Blair v Jaber [2023] EW Misc 3 (CC).

Five 3PB barristers appointed as Recorders on the Western Circuit

19th May 2023

3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to announce that family barrister Emma Harman, criminal barristers Gemma White and Jodie Mittell and personal injury barrister Tom Webb have been appointed as Recorders on the Western Circuit. The appointments will take effect as of 30 May 2023. The four are joined by associate member and specialist criminal barrister Kate Lumsdon KC. Former 3PB member District Judge Luke Ashby has also been appointed as a Recorder on the Western...

3PB Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team doubles its Legal 500 rankings in 2 years

3rd October 2022

3PB Barristers congratulates its Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team on doubling its Legal 500 rankings since 2021 to a total of 16 rankings this year (up 3 since 2022) across 4 Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western). The team has achieved a Top Tier ranking for Personal Injury in the South Eastern Circuit and a Tier 2 ranking in the Western Circuit. Recognised as a “’go-to chambers’ that acts for claimants and defendants...

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...

  Welcome to our first Personal Injury law newsletter of 2022 It certainly has been a busy few months, and I am not talking about all the alleged partying at Downing Street but, I am referring to the numerous cases recently reported and relevant to the law of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence. This newsletter analyses some of those cases and also includes guidance on the New Highway Code Provisions. Luke Ashby writes about the...

Life in lockdown has brought changes for all of us and with the easing of restrictions and life going back to ‘normal’ many of us are left wondering what the new ‘normal’ means for litigators and how we, and the courts, will need to adjust. In this edition of the newsletter Catherine Purdy looks at some of these issues and whether we might be able to take any lessons from the Family Courts, which have...

3PB personal injury and clinical negligence barrister Tom Webb attended Winchester County Court on Thursday 28th May in what is believed to have been one of the first civil trials to be heard in person since lockdown began. His observations on what fellow barristers, solicitors, lay clients, witnesses and judges will be going back to in the coming weeks are set out in his article. Tom reports on the practicalities of the process, including the...

Judgment has been handed down by the EAT in Caterham School Ltd v Rose [2019] 8 WLUK 277; UKEAT/0149/19/RN. 3PB’s Tom Webb appeared for the successful Appellant. The decision concerns the extent to which, at a preliminary hearing on time limits, a tribunal is able to make findings as to conduct continuing over a period. The judgment is available here.

3PB is pleased to announce that the Senior President of Tribunals has appointed Tom Webb as a fee-paid judge of the First Tier Tribunal. Tom will sit in the Social Entitlement Chamber and will hear appeals concerned with social security and child support, criminal injuries compensation and asylum support. Tom was called to the bar in 2010 and is a member of 3PB’s personal injury and clinical negligence teams. Appointment at just 9 years’ call...