3PB family law silk June Venters KC, leading 3PB family barrister Rachel Temple (pictured here, left to right), successfully acted for the father in the High Court case of Re E (A Child) (Complex Fact-Finding: Allegations of Domestic Abuse and Alienating Behaviours) [2025] EWFC 422. This is the accompanying case to that reported earlier in the Court of Appeal of The Father, Mother, E a child (by his Children’s Guardian) and Aimee Dover Case No:...
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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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3PB family law silk June Venters KC, leading 3PB family barrister Rachel Temple (pictured here, left to right), successfully acted for the father in the Court of Appeal case of The Father, Mother, E a child (by his Children’s Guardian) and Aimee Dover Case No: CA-2025-001859. This judgment clarifies the scope of judicial criticism against any individual witness, whether a lay person or a professional, within family court proceedings. The case follows earlier children proceedings...
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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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