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Hilary Lennox, a highly-experienced family lawyer, has joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from another well-known chambers in London. Hilary is qualified to practice as a barrister in Ireland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales and has also practised in New York and Wisconsin. A graduate of Ireland's oldest law school, King’s Inns, Hilary was called to The Bar of Ireland in 2008 and to both The Bar of Northern Ireland and The Bar of England...
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Welcome to 3PB’s Family Law team’s latest newsletter, edited by Amy Beddis.
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Spring is in action and our team have been super busy putting together some excellent articles for you all on the latest issues. This edition is full of interesting topics, debate and important case law updates.
The family team have had a great start to the year with our members appearing in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.
We are all looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our fourth annual Private Law Children and Financial Remedies Conference on 23 April at Millennium Point, Birmingham. Due to popular demand more tickets have been released.
We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter and as ever if you want to be involved or have any feedback please do get in touch. -
Luke Nelson, 3PB Barristers' (3 Paper Buildings) financial remedies and TOLATA specialist and Private FDR evaluator, has written an article for the spring edition of the Financial Remedies Journal. Titled ‘Needs Must as the Devil Drives: An Analysis of Pension Sharing in Needs Cases’, the article analyses the Pension Advisory Group reports (both first and second edition) as well as the leading HHJ Hess judgments. It considers how the court approaches pension sharing in needs-based...
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In MA v WK [2025] EWFC 499, the Family Court (Cusworth J) considered whether Nikkah ceremonies conducted in England but not compliant with the statutory formalities of the Marriage Act 1949 could become valid marriages through subsequent registration in Pakistan. The applications were brought under s.55(1) of the Family Law Act 1986 seeking declarations as to marital status. Background Three applicants had each participated in Islamic Nikkah ceremonies in England that did not comply with the formal...
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3PB's joint Head of Family Finance Amy Beddis will be speaking at Birketts' home ownership disputes seminar and networking event. The seminar, hosted by Birketts' Lucia Mills, will cover TOLATA updates on recent cases, proprietary estoppel and intervenor claims. Amy will be joined on the panel by Alex Troup KC from St John's Chambers and Natasha Dzameh from Selborne Chambers. To find out more, please click here. For more information, please contact Ian Charlton on...
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Five members of 3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) Family Law team have been listed in this year’s Doyle's Guide of the leading Birmingham family law barristers, announced today, 4 March 2026. The list highlights the leading family law barristers practising within Birmingham and the Midlands and is collated through recommendations from solicitors and peers for expertise and abilities within family law. 3PB’s Head of Chambers Elizabeth McGrath KC and Head of Family Vanessa Meachin KC...
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3PB Barristers' (3 Paper Buildings) specialist family law barrister Mark Calway has acted in the Court of Appeal case of Re S (Foster Care or Placement for Adoption) before Justices Lewison, Lewis and Cobb. Mark represented S, a young girl aged 4 years and 8 months, who had been placed in the care of foster parents due to her mother and close family’s inability to look after her. This case concerned an appeal by the...
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X and Y (Children: Adoption Order: Setting Aside) UKSC/2025/0039 is being heard in the Supreme Court today. The case, which revolves around whether a court has jurisdiction to set aside a valid adoption order other than by way of appeal, features 3PB family barristers Dorian Day and Samantha Smith for the applicants, led by Nick Goodwin KC and instructed by Emily Boardman at Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne LLP; and Kara Cann for one of the...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to welcome Sara Lewis KC as a new member of chambers and its 90-strong Family Law Group, which now boasts seven KC's. Sara was called to the Bar in 1996, took silk in 2021 and joins 3PB today from her former chambers, where she was its last of Head of Chambers until the beginning of 2026. Ranked as a Leading Silk by Legal 500 since she became a...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) specialist Property, Chancery and Matrimonial Finance Barrister Rachel Bale appears as guest on ‘Get Legally Speaking’ podcast discussing Cohabitation and TOLATA issues. Hosted by Hatti Suvari, in this episode Rachel gives some no-nonsense, jargon-free advice about what one can expect when involved in a cohabitation dispute, as well as tips to avoid common mistakes. Rachel and Hatti explore how courts decide property ownership, what evidence matters and how you can...
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3PB are delighted to announce that four family law barristers - Elaine Strachan, Peter Wilkinson, Davinia Riley and Oliver Thorne (pictured here, anti-clockwise from bottom left) - have qualified as family law arbitrators under the Financial Remedy Scheme. The quartet become members of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and are now members of the specialist panel of family law arbitrators, managed by Resolution on behalf of the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (“IFLA”). Elaine...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to welcome family law barrister Syra Flaxman-Ali as a new member of the national chambers, who will practise from their London offices in the Inner Temple. Syra covers all areas of family law, notably public and private law children cases, injunctions and matrimonial finance disputes. A busy family law junior, Syra joins 3PB from College Chambers, and is a specialist in working with vulnerable clients and those making allegations...
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