• Winners announced for pandemic essay competition

      3PB Barristers can finally announce the winner of our Pandemic Essay Competition on the subject of ““What I learned in Lockdown”. The quality of the 132 entries was remarkably high.  Reading the determined hope contained in these essays has given all of us at a glimpse of the resilience and capabilities of this generation of students.  The winner of the Essay Competition was Tomas Canning for “Knitting Together”, who receives a week’s mini pupillage with...

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    • How to become a barrister - a two-part series from 3PB for aspiring pupils

      A selection of 3PB’s current and future pupils shared their insight in to how to secure a place as a pupil; and how to make the most out of pupillage once you’re in chambers. Watch the video below to hear them tell the whole story – warts and all – and share their own tips and experiences from knowing where to apply to, to making an application, preparing for – then smashing – those interviews;...

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    • 3PB completes the London Legal Walk today

      3PB barristers Faizul Azman, Rebecca Farrell, Sharan Sanghera, Cheryl Jones, Michelle Marnham, Henrietta Hughes were joined by Chambers Director Matt Wildish to complete today, Monday 8 June, the 2020 London Legal Walk. 3PB’s team, again led by Henrietta Hughes, are also taking on 10K for Justice on the 5th October later this year. Despite the postponement of the London Legal Walk due to COVID-19, many barristers, solicitors and staff are still be marking 8th June...

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    • 3PB’s pupil barristers issue newsletter “Publications during the Pandemic”

      3PB’s pupil barristers Mariya Peykova, Georgina Dietrich (editor) and Gemma Ralph are authors of a new newsletter, ‘’Publications during the Pandemic’’. The newsletter has introductions from David Berkley QC, 3PB’s Head of Chambers, and Cheryl Jones, Head of Pupillage at 3PB. The newsletter focuses on the Coronavirus Act 2020 and highlights updates in the areas of Clinical Negligence, Construction, Competition and Insolvency law with focus on the regulations and laws during this unprecedented time. The...

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    • Suspension of wrongful trading provisions during COVID-19

      3PB barrister Cheryl Jones writes about wrongful trading and provides an update on what's changing in the light of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full article here - 'Suspension of wrongful trading provisions' by Cheryl Jones. What is wrongful trading and what are its consequences? Wrongful trading takes place when one or more Directors knows or ought to have known that the Company had no reasonable prospect of avoiding going into administration or insolvent...

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    • Cheryl Jones represents successful appellant in Court of Appeal case

      Cheryl Jones of 3PB represented the successful appellant in an appeal relating to the calculation of payment by a trustee in breach of her trust when for part of the time she occupied a trust property unlawfully, but part of the time occupied it lawfully. The case was also covered in the press: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/judge-calls-for-lip-powers-after-court-bombarded-with-emails/5059119.article  

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    • Commercial update: The meaning of deleted terms and voluntary arrangements in the Court of Appeal

      It is not uncommon for the final version of a contract to show clauses that have been replaced, deleted or struck out during the parties’ negotiations. Can you have regard to them in order to interpret the contract? The Court of Appeal has given guidance on that, and on setting aside voluntary arrangements for “material irregularity”, in Narandas-Girdhar v. Bradstock [2016] EWCA Civ 88. Cheryl Jones, a Commercial and Chancery barrister analyses the decision for...

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