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Senior family law clerk Anthony Burgess has joined 3PB's award-winning family team as Senior Practice Manager, dividing his time between 3PB's Birmingham and Manchester offices. Anthony brings nearly 20 years' specialist experience in family law clerking and joins from his role as acting head of family clerking. He will support 3PB's team of around 90 family law barristers nationally and lead the family clerking function in Manchester. Anthony will work closely with barristers to support...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), one of the UK's largest chambers, has this year again surpassed all expectations in the latest Legal 500 UK Bar rankings achieving a record number of 203 rankings, including 20 new rankings. 128 of 3PB’s barristers are now ranked in the Legal 500. The set is ranked in 28 areas of law across London, Midlands, South Eastern, Western and in the Middle East. This year, the national chambers gains a...
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3PB’s formidable family law team once again tops the Legal 500 rankings with a total of 78 individual rankings – including 9 new individual rankings - across the London, Midlands, South Eastern and Western Circuits. 49 of our barristers are ranked for their Children and Domestic Abuse cases expertise; 28 are acknowledged for their Financial Remedies expertise and one of them is ranked for Private FDR judges and arbitrators expertise. 3PB’s family law team remains...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) Gemma Chapman appears as a guest on Messy Social Work's podcast in the episode 'What social workers get wrong in court: Insights from family barrister Gemma Chapman'. Hosted by Richard Devine, they explore the intersection between social work, family justice and advocacy. Gemma shares her journey into family law, what she enjoys most about being a barrister and some of the challenges that come with working in a complex and...
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Following the recent changes in the wording of the warning notices that are to be included in Child Arrangement Orders, Andrew Duncan (pictured here) reminds us of the basic principles of correctly using warning notices. Andrew reflects on the importance of getting these notices right and anticipates this reset to mean that they are correctly applied going forward, so all parties are unequivocally aware of their seriousness and the consequences of not complying with them. Click...
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3PB Barristers is delighted to welcome Elizabeth Wentworth to its national chambers. Elizabeth will be practicing from 3PB's Bristol office. Elizabeth is a specialist family law barrister with a busy practice encompassing children (both private and public) and financial remedy proceedings, with a caseload typical of counsel well beyond her call. She represented the father in the reported case of B v B (Fact finding) [2024] EWFC 836 (B), which involved issues of coercive control. Known for...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to welcome family law barrister Ria Herbert back to chambers from maternity leave on Tuesday 1 September, 2026. Ria has a busy practice, welcoming instructions across a wide range of family law encompassing both public and private law children cases, injunction and domestic abuse, and financial remedies including TOLATA matters. Ria also acts for both individuals and local authorities in cases involving Court of Protection matters. She is...
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3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist family law barristers June Venters KC and Rachel Temple have represented the intervenor in the significant Court of Appeal (CoA) decision of Re B (A Child: Uncertain Perpetrator) [2026] EWCA Civ 1024. This case concerned a small child who suffered multiple serious non-accidental injuries over a period of several months. While the appeal did not challenge the majority of the findings from the original fact-finding hearing, the appeal related...
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Eleanor Marsh represented the mother in the case of FH v MH (PH12J: Parallel Criminal Proceedings) [2026] EWFC 195 (B), where the Court considered the relationship between the assessment of risk within the Family Court and ongoing criminal proceedings. The Court applied the Resolution model, finding that the maintaining of a guilty plea within criminal proceedings need not be fatal to an assessment of risk within the Family Courts. To read the full article, and...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) Elizabeth McGrath KC, Head of Chambers, appears as a guest on Talking Family Law – the Resolution Podcast. Hosted by Anita Mehta and Simon Blain, this episode features Angela Killa (JCP solicitors) and Elizabeth McGrath KC discussing the Child-Focused Case model. Liz talks about managing high-risk cases involving serious abuse allegations, explains that judges not Cafcass officers decide the facts, and highlights the importance of good written advocacy at decision...
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Welcome to 3PB's Family Law team's newsletter, edited by Amy Beddis. This year is flying by, with another busy quarter here at 3PB family. We have some excellent contributions this month from Scott Sharp, Charles Hogan, Imogen Robins and Andrew Duncan. We invite you to book your place to attend our September Manchester NCDR event and our 3rd Annual Public Law Conference in Southampton in November. Our members continue to feature in reported cases, check out the summaries below and catch up on the brunches you have missed. We hope you enjoy this latest chapter of our newsletter. If you would like to contribute an article please do get in touch with me at [email protected].
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3PB’s June Venters KC, who was the first woman solicitor to be appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2006, has been ranked in the new Spear’s Family Law Indices 2026 as a "Top Recommended Family Law Barrister". Described as "the Michelin guide of wealth," Spear’s is the indispensable guide to the top private client advisers and service providers for high and ultra-high net-worth individuals in the UK and globally. To read more, please click here. To contact or...
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