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3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist family law barrister Gemma Chapman has successfully represented the Respondent in 'Ellana (a child) (Fact-Finding: Head Injury), Re Neutral Citation Number [2026] EWFC 272 (B)'. Gemma represented the mother of a 15 month old baby who was in her sole care when she sustained both a subdural haemorrhage and spinal subdural haemorrhage. While the medical evidence was strongly in support of this being an abusive shaking injury, it was the...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) has broken its previous record of individual rankings in the latest, 2027 edition of Chambers and Partners. The national chambers' rankings rose by 20% to a total of 123 separate ratings (104 last year), including 24 new rankings, for 94 of its barristers. The 2027 guide saw accolades for 3PB in 23 areas of law across the London Bar as well as in the North Eastern, South Eastern, Western and...
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3PB Barristers’ Family Law team has achieved 42 individual rankings (+9 compared with 2026), in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners published today. 35 of our family law barristers are ranked across 5 Circuits: in London, the Midlands, North Eastern, South Eastern and Western. Our team retains its Band 1 rankings for both Family Children and Family Finance in the Midlands, and its Band 2 ranking in Western. Clients comment that "The engagement of...
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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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