3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) is delighted to announce that family barrister Hannah Bush will officially be appointed as a District Judge from next Monday 18th November 2024. District Judge Bush will sit on the Midlands Circuit and be based at the Birmingham Combined Court Centre. Hannah was called to the Bar in 2007 and was appointed as a Deputy District Judge and a fee-paid First Tier Tribunal Judge in May 2020. Teaching advocacy part-time...
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3PB are delighted to announce that family law barristers Stephen Wildblood KC and Nicola Frost have both qualified as Family Law Arbitrators under the Financial Remedy Scheme. Both 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”). Stephen Wildblood KC (1980 call) practised as a specialist family barrister for 27...
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3PB specialist property & housing law barrister, Oliver Nunn, delivered two guest lectures to several hundred Land Law undergraduate students at the University of Leicester, on 28 November 2024. The lectures delivered were on a topic of how the law, both as it currently stands and in reform proposals contained in the Renters Rights Bill tries to balance the competing interests between landlords and tenants, in claims for possession of privately rented residential property, so...
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3PB's family law barristers Dorian Day and Samantha Smith appeared in today's landmark Court of Appeal case that has ruled that there is no inherent jurisdiction to revoke adoption orders. Judgement in the case of Re X and Y (Children: Adoption Order: Setting Aside) has brought clarity to the law, but will be cold comfort to many families seeking a legal remedy following the permanent breakdown of an adoption. The case concerned two teenage girls...
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