• Legal 500 2023

      3PB Family team goes from strength to strength in the Legal 500

      3PB Barristers congratulates its Family Law team for another strong set of results in the Legal 500 directory published on Wednesday. The Legal 500 attributed 39 individual rankings to 29 of our barristers across 4 Circuits (in London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western). Our team is seen by clients as the ‘go-to chambers for family work with a good range of practitioners from junior through to silks’... an ‘excellent set of chambers [that] also...

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    • Simon Astill

      3PB triumphs in latest Legal 500 ratings of the UK's best barristers  

      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...

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    • CTJ 1

      Four 3PB barristers appointed as Recorders

      3PB is delighted to announce that four of its barristers – Lydia Pemberton, Emma Southern, Nicola Talbot-Hadley and Steven Howard have been appointed as Recorders in today’s announcement (26 January 2022) from the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Emma, who was called to the Bar in 2006, and Steven, called in 2009, are members of 3PB’s 75-strong team of family barristers at the national chambers. Lydia is a chancery and contentious probate barrister called in 2006 whilst...

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    • Legal directories success for 3PB education law team

      Another excellent year for our family law team in the Legal Directories

      3 Paper Buildings (3PB) wish to congratulate its Family Law team for another set of outstanding results in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 directories. Ranked by both directories in the Midlands and Western Circuits, our team has seen both its Matrimonial and Children teams promoted to Band 1 in the Midlands by Chambers and Partners. The Legal 500 attributed 36 individual rankings to 27 of our barristers – including 8 new rankings. Chambers...

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    • Podium landscape

      3PB family team excels in Legal Directory 2021 results

      Chambers & Partners 2021 UK Bar directory attributed a record 17 barrister rankings to our Family Silks and Junior barristers, across the Midlands, Western, London and South Eastern circuits in its latest edition, covering both finance and children work. The Directory ranked the team in Band 2 in the Midlands and in the Western Circuits. Meanwhile, the Legal 500 elected to rank 24 of our members across the same four circuits. The Directory gave the...

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    • 3PB family newsletter is out now featuring news and a round up of our recent brunch series

      The 3PB family team brings you a round-up of the latest news and a summary of the talks from our recent series of brunch talks. This issue includes contributions from or news about Vanessa Meachin QC, Aimee Fox, Amy Beddis, Gemma Chapman, Emma Harman, Emma Griffiths, Michael George, Antonida Kocharova, James Legg, Hamish Dunlop, Sarah Jennings, Theresa Lim, Adeo Fraser, Nicola Frost, Hannah Bush, and Steven Howard as well as details of our upcoming events....

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    • 3PB family releases latest video guide to ebundles

      In the latest video in the series on how to create ebundles for the family courts 3PB's Steven Howard shares some tips on what to do if your finished ebundle is too large to send by email.

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    • New videos added to series of guides on creating ebundles for the family court

      3PB family barrister Steven Howard has added three more useful video guides to his series about how to create ebundles for the family courts. The latest editions cover: Video 5 - Updating an e-bundle by rebuilding from individual documents Video 6 - Updating an e-bundle by inserting updates into the existing bundle Video 7 - Adding a late document to an e-bundle.   View the new videos here

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    • New videos added to series on how to create an ebundle

      3PB family barrister Steven Howard has added two new videos to his useful series of guides to creating ebundles for use in the family courts. The next two videos cover: Creating an ebundle from individual documents; and creating a clickable index. View the new videos here: How to create ebundles for the Family Court

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    • Steven Howard launches series of video guides to creating ebundles

      As the trend for the courts to prefer electronic bundles to hard copy bundles continues - exacerbated and accelerated by lawyers and judges being forced to work remotely through the coronavirus lockdown period - 3PB family law barrister Steven Howard has put together a series of videos designed to help solicitors to easily create ebundles that will be effective and easy to use in and by the family courts.   Our ever-expanding series includes (so...

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    • 3PB family barrister Steven Howard delivers popular lecture series

      Steven Howard has recently finished delivering a lecture series to child protection professionals in Dorset. In April 2019 Steven delivered a seminar to Aspire Adoption to train social workers dealing with adoption on applications brought by parents seeking to discharge placement orders or oppose adoption orders. This was followed by a lecture jointly developed and delivered with Zara Hanson, solicitor at Dorset Council, to approximately 70 social workers to provide training on managing care cases...

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