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3PB Barristers’ specialist property, chancery and financial remedy barrister Rachel Bale will be hosting at the Her Bar Conference 2025 on Saturday 17th May. Her Bar was founded in 2021 by Rachel during her pupillage at 3PB, alongside Nasreen Shah of Great James Street Chambers. Her Bar is an online platform dedicated to creating a network for aspiring and practising women barristers, offering support, guidance and community at all points of their careers. Her Bar creates bespoke...
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3PB family barrister and arbitrator Stephen Wildblood KC, who is a former family judge, is the writer and director of the innovative new play, "Daisy Through The Looking Glass", a production which aims to hold a mirror up to the family law system and the real impact it can make on families. Based on real legal experiences, the play will be performed at the Royal Courts of Justice later this afternoon and explores a father,...
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3PB are pleased to announce that barristers Zahra Tierney and Jeremy Warner (pictured here, left to right) have successfully completed their twelve-month pupillages and become members of the 270-barrister, national chambers. Former first-class law graduate Zahra Tierney (call: 2022) will continue her busy practice with a particular focus on property law (particularly residential landlord and tenant issues), commercial law and general civil litigation from 3PB's Oxford office. A former paralegal, Zahra worked for two London-based...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) has seen four members of chambers - commercial, property and public law silk the Rt Hon Michael Tomlinson KC, commercial and information barrister Mariya Peykova, personal injury and military/police claims barrister Kim Wilson and and employment and discrimination barrister Robin Pickard (pictured here, clockwise from top left) - named on the 2025 Pro Bono Recognition List by the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill. The 2025...
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3PB is pleased to announce that its house band "Out of Office" (pictured here at the 2023 event) will again be participating in Bristol Law Society’s Battle of the Legal Bands! The competition, now in its third year, brings together bands from legal firms from across the western circuit for a night of amazing live music, all in aid of charity. Not only will every band be vying for the title of Best Band, they’ll...
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The Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, granting an appeal brought by a Mother against the refusal of the trial Judge to permit her to be assisted by an intermediary during a Fact-Finding Hearing to determine how her (then) 10-month-old son sustained a serious fracture to his skull. Lord Justice Peter Jackson considered the decisions of Lieven J in West Northamptonshire Council v KA...
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3PB’s barrister Oliver Nunn, alongside Dani Gotts St. Clair and Emma Shiels, supported by Georgia Coleyshaw, delivered an advocacy workshop for the University of Nottingham Bar Society. In advance of the workshop, students were given an exercise requiring them to prepare and deliver closing submissions at the end of a road traffic accident liability trial. Students received interactive, one-on-one feedback in a group setting, using the Hampel method to help develop their advocacy skills and...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) is pleased to announce that crime and regulatory barrister Ben Thompson, based in Bournemouth, has become a full tenant of the 270-barrister national chambers after successfully completing his probationary tenancy. Ben is a busy and versatile practitioner on the Western Circuit, having joined 3PB from the CPS where he had completed his pupillage. As a prosecutor, Ben has been entrusted with serious cases, recently securing a just sentence in a controlling...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) are pleased to announce that our second six pupils - James, Emily and Victoria (pictured left to right) - are now on their feet and accepting instructions in their own cases. All started their pupillages last October. James Hume, a former Fleet Air Arm Officer, will now accept instructions in commercial litigation, property and construction disputes. Emily Hayward, who was a paralegal in Slaughter and May’s Disputes and Investigation team, will...
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The three new pupil barristers starting their twelve-month pupillages with 3PB in April 2025, pictured left to right, are: Liam O'Shaughnessy, who worked as a senior HR professional for over 25 years, will be focusing on employment and discrimination; former Court of Appeal judicial assistant, journalist and sinophile Simon Haywood who will be focusing on civil litigation particularly commercial, property and costs; and former Burges Salmon paralegal and employment litigator at Croner and Direct Line...
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Welcome to our employment law team’s March newsletter, edited by Joseph England, featuring analysis from Joseph, Gareth Graham, Colin McDevitt and Matthew Curtis on the following cases:
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- Kau Media Group Ltd v Hart [2025] EWHC 553 (KB)
- Gourlay v West Dunbartonshire Council [2025] EAT 29
- W v Highways England and others, 18th February 2025, [2025] EAT 18, Lord Fairley
- Kostrova v McDermott International INC and CB&I UK Ltd, 13th March 2025, [2025] EAT 35, Lord Fairley
- Kamphues v Venator Materials UK Ltd, 19th March 2025, [2025] EAT 30, HHJ Tayler
- Kinch v Compassion in World Farming International, 26th March 2025, [2025] EAT 41, Lord Fairley
- Impact Recruitment Services Ltd v Korpysa [2025] EAT 22 -
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed fourteen new members to its Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP). Among the new appointees is Gareth Graham, who has extensive experience of chairing sports disciplinary hearings (including for the Rugby Football Union, World Rugby, The Football Association, the British Horseracing Authority and British Cycling), as well as expertise in employment and sports law generally, with a particular focus on whistleblowing, safeguarding and discrimination cases. The CDP is...
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