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

20th October 2023

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...

3PB excels with 73 rankings in Chambers and Partners 2023

20th October 2022

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...

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...

3PB organises innovative remote non-statutory village green inquiry

12th October 2020

3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) has been instrumental in delivering a non-statutory village green public inquiry online. It is thought that it could well be the first inquiry of its kind where oral evidence has been heard remotely. Planning barrister William Webster of 3PB was instructed by Wiltshire Council to hold an inquiry in relation to a village green application. Owing to restrictions on physical gatherings an alternative solution was needed if the inquiry was...

3PB Barristers William Webster’s new seminal guide for planning practitioners - “Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook” – published by leading UK law publishers Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, has attracted critical praise from planning barrister Dr Ashley Bowes, Editor of the Journal of Planning & Environment Law,  in Thomson Reuters’ Book Reviews. The book undoubtedly provides the busy planning professional with answers to day-to-day commonly encountered issues. Covering a broad range of topics, it also provides...

3 Paper Buildings (3PB Barristers) planning and property disputes barrister William Webster is the author of a new seminal guide for planning practitioners’ - “Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook” – published by leading UK law publishers Wildy, Simmonds and Hill. The handbook has a foreword by the lead judge of the Planning Court, The Right Honourable Lord Justice Lindblom, who said “in an area of the law that is constantly changing, and constantly growing in...

3PB barrister William Webster to publish new planning law handbook

6th July 2018

William Webster is to publish a practitioner's handbook for planning professionals this summer. The book covers the widest possible range of planning topics in a single volume. It is written for planning practitioners in the private and public sectors. It will contain the final revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which is due to be published in Summer 2018. The book is written in a style that combines a readily accessible narrative with...

The Court of Appeal has recently restored the finding of 3PB planning and public law barrister William Webster on statutory incompatibility in his report when sitting as an Inspector in a village green inquiry for Surrey County Council in 2015. The decision of Gilbart J on this issue (in which he rejected the inspector’s advice and recommendation to the registration authority on statutory incompatibility) was set aside (see R (on the application of NHS Property...

In a review authored by Dr Ashley Bowes, the Journal of Planning and Environment Law has positively commented on “Restrictions on the Use of Land”, William Webster and Robert Weatherley’s planning law reference book. Click here to read the review. Published by Wildy, Simmonds & Hill the book covers the law and practice in a number of fields which impact the use of land and there is considerable focus on remedies for the infringement of rights...

3PB planning and land experts William Webster and Robert Weatherley's book has been reviewed by planning solicitor Kate James of TLT in the Law Society Gazette. The book is described as "a handy signpost" with "its ability to offer a wealth of information at your fingertips, so that it can be quickly referred to or read in detail, depending on need." It is "a welcome home to a collection of materials that may otherwise require...

3PB Planning Barristers William Webster and Graeme Sampson summarise and analyse the government's Housing White Paper. To read their analysis please click here.