Coownership and Trusts of Land News

Former Solicitor General Michael Tomlinson KC returns to 3PB

26th September 2024

Former Solicitor General in England and Wales, the Rt.Hon. Michael Tomlinson KC (call:2002) is returning to 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) to practice as a barrister after more than 9 years as an MP and becoming one of UK’s top law enforcement officers. Michael was the first newly appointed King’s Counsel in 2022 and was sworn in as a member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in February 2024. Michael will be based in the...

Property barrister Oliver Nunn joins 3PB

16th September 2024

Oliver Nunn (Call: 2011) has joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from KCH Garden Square Chambers. Oliver specialises in real estate disputes and his busy practice covers Landlord and Tenant disputes in the private residential and social housing sectors, agricultural tenancies and commercial leases. Highly rated as a property and social housing barrister by both Chambers UK and Legal 500, Oliver has significant experience representing institutional investors such as housing associations and local authorities in property-related...

Rachel Bale delivers interactive training on TOLATA claims

5th September 2024

Rachel Bale, one of 3PB's chancery and property barristers, provided an in-depth seminar to thirty members of law firm Pennington Manches Cooper's Real Estate and Family team on "All matters TOLATA". The interactive seminar involved a comprehensive overview of trusts arising in both domestic and commercial contexts, updates on key precedents such as Hudson v Hathaway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 as well as a review of the court's approach to equitable accounting. Rachel also gave...

3PB Commercial team recruits Saunak Irani-Nayar

18th September 2023

Commercial litigation barrister Saunak Irani-Nayar, who graduated with a BA and MA degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and has been awarded several scholarships and prizes for his academic results, has become a member of 3PB. He specialises principally in banking, securities and finance litigation, contractual and business-to-business disputes, property  disputes and consumer credit litigation. Ranked 1st in his year on the GDL, Saunak achieved one of the highest sets of marks ever...

Andrew Nicklin joins 3PB

5th April 2023

Andrew Nicklin (2010 Call), pictured here, has joined 3 Paper Buildings (3PB). He has a busy specialist property and chancery practice across the South East of England (including London and all of East Anglia) with a particular expertise in real property, landlord and tenant, trusts of land and other trusts/estate disputes. He appears in the High Court (including in the Business and Property Courts) and the County Court and other tribunals providing a high level...

Jakob Reckhenrich joins 3PB’s Commercial and Property & Estates teams

29th June 2021

Barrister Jakob Reckhenrich, a multiple-scholarship award winner and Oxford and Brown Universities alumnus, has joined 3PB to advise on commercial, real estate and property disputes. He joins 3PB, initially as a third six pupil, after completing his pupillage at Monckton Chambers and working as a judicial assistant in the Commercial Court, where he assisted, among others, Mrs Justice Cockerill and Mr Justice Butcher. Jakob Reckhenrich came to the Bar after working as an academic philosopher...

Louise Worton delivers an insight into TOLATA matters for YRes Oxfordshire

4th June 2021

3PB’s specialist property and family law barrister Louise Worton (pictured here) recently delivered a webinar on TOLATA issues to young family lawyers group YRes in Oxfordshire. Louise gave members of YRes in Oxfordshire an insight into TOLATA (Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996) applications. The presentation included a detailed overview of the types of trusts, provisions of the act, procedure and costs involved. Click here to view Louise's presentation. Louise advised the...

3PB Barristers have created a dedicated webpage on its website to act as a hub for the many articles, briefings and webinar and podcast recordings about lockdown laws and regulations as well as practical issues like court attendance, e-bundles, remote and hybrid hearings. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to create employment, contractual and other legal challenges which are in many ways unprecedented. The impact of the virus is being felt, and in response, 3PB have...

Publishers Viking has scooped an “urgent clarion call” for the British farming industry by 3PB criminal and family barrister Sarah Langford in a three-way auction. “For a Love of the Land” will be published in spring 2022 and follows Sarah’s hugely successful debut book, and Sunday Times bestseller, “In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law”. Sarah Langford was a barrister for 10 years, working in criminal and family law in London and around the...