Family team newsletter out now! All the latest case reviews and analysis
15th September 2020
The 3PB family team has published its September newsletter bringing you a round-up of news, articles and presentations from our latest brunch talks.
Edited by Amy Beddis, this issue includes contributions from or news about Elizabeth McGrath QC, Vanessa Meachin QC, Martine Kushner, Lawrence Messling, Lucy Hendry, Rachael Goodall, Michael George, Aimee Fox, Emma Harman, Emma Griffiths, Alex Hodge, Oliver Thorne, Emma Southern as well as details of our upcoming events featuring Elisabeth Hudson, Nathalie Bull, Audrey Archer and Luke Nelson.
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3PB Property, Chancery and Matrimonial Finances barrister Rachel Bale (pictured here) writes for the Financial Remedies Journal an article about ‘shams’ or ‘illusory’ trusts and the challenges they cause in divorce proceedings for family and chancery lawyers alike. Rachel provides guidance on the legal principles to follow to identify shams and illusory trusts and considers the steps to follow to navigate through the difficulties they create, including: Back to basics: key players in a trust...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) today welcomed family barrister Shan Parker (call: 2018) who has moved to 3PB from another well-known chambers on the South Coast of England, where she completed her pupillage two years ago. Shan already enjoys a diverse and busy family law practice across the whole of the South and South-West of England, focusing on private law children cases and matrimonial finance disputes as well as care and adoption matters. In the last...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to announce that three of our senior clerking team - Rob Leonard, Ian Charlton and David Fielder - will take on enhanced roles as Chambers Directors. James Thornton is also promoted and becomes our Chief Operating Officer (COO) with overall responsibility for procurement, HR, IT, facilities and finance. Warmest congratulations to all four of them (pictured here, clockwise from top left). Commenting on the announcement, 3PB's CEO Simon...
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3PB family barristers Andrew Duncan and Gemma Chapman, led by 4PB's Alison Grief KC and Sam King KC respectively, represented the mother and father in the complex, non-accidental head injury case of Re X & Y (Children) [2024] EWFC 443 (B), where the challenge of expert views under cross-examination led to the mother being exonerated from causing injury and the father deemed to have done so using lesser force and without intention. In a climate...
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