Set Profile > 3PB > Birmingham, England
3PB Offices
3PB
THE COLMORE BUILDING, 20 COLMORE CIRCUS, QUEENSWAY
BIRMINGHAM
B4 6AT
England
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3PB > The Legal 500 Rankings
Business and regulatory crime (including health and safety) Tier 1
Members of 3PB are highly active in health and safety cases across the western circuit, with instructions for both the defence and prosecution in a range of cases up to and including multi-fatality matters. Nicholas Cotter is highly recommended, particularly for matters relating to care homes, while Tom Horder is another key name within the set, and recently prosecuted the owner of a bouncy castle erected at a sailing regatta, which injured several children after being lifted by high winds and carried for several metres.
Leading Juniors
Crime (general and fraud) Tier 1
3PB 'is one of the forefront chambers in Western Circuit and a has a well-deserved reputation for quality representation for both prosecution and defence'. In recent instructions of note, Adam Feest QC prosecuted former Southampton FC youth coach Bob Higgins, who was convicted in a 2019 retrial of sexually abused youth players over two decades, involving issues of hearsay applications and new complainants. Among the set's juniors, Nicholas Cotter represented a man who was acquitted of murder after the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence after forensics suggested the defendant may have stabbed the deceased in self-defence. Turning to the fraud arena, Timothy Bradbury prosecuted an eight-week, multi-defendant cheating the public revenue case concerning phoenix fraud.
Leading Silks
Leading Juniors
Employment Tier 1
Barristers at 3PB act for claimants and respondents alike across the full gamut of employment matters. The set has particular expertise in public sector work in the local authority, education and health care contexts, as well as transport and technology-related matters in the private sector. Karen Moss is praised for being 'personable with all clients' and being able to 'put witnesses at ease while keeping them focussed on their evidence', while Mark Green 's 'quiet and unassuming confidence' makes one solicitors' lay clients 'feel at ease as soon as they meet him'.
Leading Juniors
Employment Tier 2
3PB has a 'strong, client-focused employment group that is able to deliver strong advocates on short notice'. Simon Tibbitts represented the Crown Prosecution Service in defeating a disability discrimination case in which the claimant was unusually subjected to a costs order, while Stephen Wyeth represented an organic lubricant firm in a claim above the statutory maximum brought by a former director, who changed the company's top-level web domain from .org to .com without permission. Turning to employee work, Andrew MacPhail represented the claimant in Court of Appeal case BMC Software v Shaikh, an equal pay claim.
Leading Juniors
Family and children law Tier 2
3PB is primarily known in the Midlands for its contingent of care-focused barristers, whose practice involves serious non accidental injuries, sexual abuse allegations, adoption orders and more for the full range of parties including local authorities, parents and children. However, the set also houses several barristers with experience in financial remedy proceedings, such as Elizabeth McGrath QC and Vanessa Meachin QC, both of whom have seen recent substantial cases involving private clients with large asset portfolios in addition to their child law practices. Turning to the set's the junior ranks, Michael George is praised for his 'exceptional aptitude for financial remedy work, particularly cases involving company law, complex accounts and pensions'; on the care side, key juniors include Lawrence Messling, Suzanne Coleclough , and Stephen Abberley, while practitioners such as Poonam Bhari, Aimee Fox, and Nicola Martin spread themselves across both areas.
Leading Silks: Child Law (Public and Private)
Leading Silks: Divorce and Financial Remedy
Leading Juniors: Child Law (Public and Private)
Leading Juniors: Divorce and Financial Remedy
Family and children law Tier 2
The team at 3PB regularly deal with all aspects of family law and have appeared in all stages of the courts. Elisabeth Hudson is experienced in Children Act work and has acted in a number of cases brought under the Hague Convention involving the return of children to and from Australia, USA, and Zimbabwe. Sarah O’Hara has a particular interest in non-accidental injury cases; Lucy Hendry specialises in public and private child law acting for parents, guardians, and local authorities; Hamish Dunlop is noted for his expertise in financial cases involving family businesses and inherited wealth; and Melissa Barlow is recommended for representing police authorities in cases of complexities between court proceedings and police investigations.
Leading Juniors: Child Law (Public and Private)
Leading Juniors: Divorce and Financial Remedy
Clinical negligence Tier 3
Mark Lomas and Hamish Dunlop are the key names to note in 3PB's clinical negligence team, with a strong background in very serious cases involving birth injuries, surgical complications, and missed diagnoses leading to death or serious injury. Of particular note is Lomas' representation of a claimant who suffered severe neurological injury due to a brain stem tumour which had previously been removed, where the return of the tumour was missed during routine scanning and diagnosis was delayed.
Leading Juniors
Family and children law Tier 3
Nicola Martin and James Legg are the key names to note at 3PB, with Martin involved in high net worth ancillary relief proceedings and care cases, while Legg's focus lies on children cases. The set, whose members are instructed by both well-respected private client and Legal Aid firms alike, has 'great depth of knowledge and a greater ability to cover matters around the country'.
Leading Juniors: Child Law (Public and Private)
Police law (defendant)
Leading Juniors
James Trumble - 3PB ‘A measured and effective advocate. A quick thinking knowledgeable barrister who is never fazed by anything thrown his way at court.’
Employment
Leading Juniors
Personal injury Tier 3
'A leader in his field', Mark Lomas is a key member of the personal injury team at 3PB. Lomas has a particular interest in catastrophic injury claims involving both traumatic brain injury and spinal injury and also in fatal accident claims. Michelle Marnham is another key member of the team and has a particular interest in CRPS cases, while Duncan McNair has particular expertise in employers' liability, specifically cases involving accidents at work. Luke Ashby deals with life-changing injuries and fatal accidents and has a specialist counter-fraud practice. As a whole, the team provides advice to both defendant and claimant clients in all aspects of personal injury litigation, with cases ranging from the simplest to the most complex.
Leading Juniors
Property and construction Tier 3
3PB offers a specialist construction team, which comprises of FIDIC adjudicators and members qualified in the construction profession. The set also provides private client expertise for matters such as insolvency where LPA receivers are instructed. Clients include developers, insurers and individuals instructing through direct access. Matthew Cannings heads the property and estates team and undertakes landlord and tenant work and neighbour disputes, often involving time in court. Antonietta Grasso acts for landlords and tenants, including vulnerable clients, in judicial reviews, handling boundary, trespass, and property damage disputes. Paul Newman is well known for undertaking a wide range of construction disputes across the region. Robert Weatherley is considered a go-to for various property-related commercial disputes.
Leading Juniors
Education Tier 4
3PB is an 'excellent set with strength-in-depth' in the education field with members described as 'approachable and committed'. Recent instructions include Aimee Fox successfully defending Wolverhampton City Council in a judicial review matter against allegations that it failed in its duty under section 19(1) of the Education Act 1996, to provide education services to the claimant. Other highlights include Emma Waldron successfully acting for Queen Mary, University of London in a discrimination claim.
Rising stars
Leading Juniors
Inquests and inquiries
Leading Juniors
Intellectual property
Leading Juniors
Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
Leading Juniors
Children law (including public and private law)
Leading Juniors
Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
Personal injury - Leading Juniors
Professional negligence
Leading Juniors
Chancery, probate, and tax
3PB's Lydia Pemberton, who is described by clients as someone who will 'fight hard for her clients and cut to the heart of an issue to get things done', is highly active in Inheritance Act claims, disputes about the validity of wills, removal of executors, and TLATA matters.
Leading Juniors
Chancery, probate, and tax
Cheryl Jones at 3PB remains active in Chancery work, with a particular focus on wills, trusts, and probate matters, with recent instructions concerning the removal of executors, and contested letters of administration, as well as time-sensitive matters such as urgent freezing injunctions against estate administrators.
Leading Juniors
Commercial litigation
3PB's 'commercial, pragmatic, and user-friendly' Richard Whitehouse is recommended for breach of contract claims, representing clients across a range of industry sectors. Recent work has included claims relating to negligent installation of amenities, cross-jurisdictional claims, and asset purchase agreements.
Leading Juniors
Commercial litigation
Joseph Giret QC of 3PB is recognised for his expertise in a wide range of high-value commercial disputes, many of which with international and offshore elements. Solicitors continue to instruct the set because of its ability to 'provide specialist advice, the range of experience its barristers are able to offer and its geographical reach'.
Leading Silks
Company and insolvency
Charles Irvine at 3PB is adept at handling insolvency matters, particularly with respect to individual bankruptcies and corporate liquidations, including ones involving disputes between company directors.
Leading Juniors
Court of Protection and community care
At 3PB, Louise Worton has a wide-ranging Court of Protection and community care practice, with areas of expertise including deprivation of liberty, the removal of deputies and best interests decisions on placement, contact, care packages and medical treatment. In particular, she is praised as 'a voice of reason in circumstances where without her input it would be very difficult to find a way forward'.
Leading Juniors
Court of Protection and community care
Members of 3PB receive instructions from family members, local authorities, deputies, protected parties as well as the Official Solicitor, with areas of expertise including deputyship order matters, deprivation of liberty applications and broader mental capacity issues. In particular, the set has been 'traditionally focused on community care through judicial review, however the addition of Matthew Wyard to the team has given real fire power to their Court of Protection offering in Wales.'
Rising stars
Education
3PB's Aimee Fox is a 'fountain of knowledge when it comes to special educational needs law', with a practice that covers advice to both schools and parents.
Education
A set that is 'increasingly becoming a powerhouse in education law', 3PB's presence in this region comes in the form Matthew Wyard, who joined from Sinclairslaw in February 2020. He specialises in public law challenges in the education sector, civil claims against education institutions and special educational needs appeals.Rising stars
Planning and environment
3PB's planning team is regularly instructed to advise and act on behalf of planning professionals in the public and private sectors and to appear at public inquiries or in enforcement proceedings. Of particular note, William Webster is a specialist in the law of village greens having sat as an inspector at numerous non-statutory inquiries and has also appeared in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in leading village green cases. 'In a public inquiry setting, he has the ability to explain the issues to the applicants who have no legal knowledge and background in a way that avoids being patronising and conveys the meaning in a readily understandable way,' said one solicitor.
Leading Juniors
Professional negligence
At 3PB, Richard Whitehouse 'deals with factually and legally messy disputes with ease and tenacity' and provides 'excellent quality of advice tempered with a pragmatic application to real world scenarios'. A former solicitor, Whitehouse represents clients in litigious and non-contentious disputes including actions against professionals for breach of contract, trust, and fiduciary duty. He is regularly instructed in complex, high-value commercial disputes by insurers, companies, law firms, and other professionals, including barristers, surveyors, architects, accountants, and brokers.
Leading Juniors
Property and construction
Members of 3PB act across the entire sphere of property, from development to commercial as well as residential landlord and tenant disputes, but also boundary disputes, adverse possession claims, co-ownership and conveyancing disputes. Joshua Dubin represented a party to a three-decade neighbour dispute featuring allegations of deliberate flooding, trespass, vandalism to fences and nuisancious firing of rifles.
Leading Juniors
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Family and children law Tier 2
3PB is primarily known in the Midlands for its contingent of care-focused barristers, whose practice involves serious non accidental injuries, sexual abuse allegations, adoption orders and more for the full range of parties including local authorities, parents and children. However, the set also houses several barristers with experience in financial remedy proceedings, such as Elizabeth McGrath QC and Vanessa Meachin QC, both of whom have seen recent substantial cases involving private clients with large asset portfolios in addition to their child law practices. Turning to the set's the junior ranks, Michael George is praised for his 'exceptional aptitude for financial remedy work, particularly cases involving company law, complex accounts and pensions'; on the care side, key juniors include Lawrence Messling, Suzanne Coleclough , and Stephen Abberley, while practitioners such as Poonam Bhari, Aimee Fox, and Nicola Martin spread themselves across both areas.
Leading Silks: Child Law (Public and Private)
Leading Silks: Divorce and Financial Remedy
Leading Juniors: Child Law (Public and Private)
Leading Juniors: Divorce and Financial Remedy
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Chancery, probate, and tax
3PB's Lydia Pemberton, who is described by clients as someone who will 'fight hard for her clients and cut to the heart of an issue to get things done', is highly active in Inheritance Act claims, disputes about the validity of wills, removal of executors, and TLATA matters.
Leading Juniors
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Education
3PB's Aimee Fox is a 'fountain of knowledge when it comes to special educational needs law', with a practice that covers advice to both schools and parents.
3PB > Set Profile
THE CHAMBERS
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), is one of the UK’s oldest and fourth largest chambers in England providing a comprehensive legal advocacy and advisory service to businesses and individuals alike. Headed by commercial barrister David Berkley QC, our 215 barristers – including 14 silks – deliver real expertise and specialist knowledge across the full range of legal dispute areas, assisted by some 50 clerks and other staff.
Our barristers offer legal representation and advice across the UK from six locations: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester. The chambers operates as a single national legal business from its six well-equipped offices and is fully accredited by the Bar Council to provide CPD courses and is IiP and BarMark accredited. Each office is staffed by friendly and experienced clerks and staff who can advise clients on the most suitable counsel for a particular case, as well as discuss fees and provide estimates for anticipated work.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Chambers is a full-service barristers’ set, offering legal expertise from 12 specialist teams. See www.3pb.co.uk for more details.
The commercial group advises on company, contract and commercial disputes including professional negligence claims, as well as insolvency, energy law and intellectual property.. The criminal law group advises and acts in the full range of criminal law issues from homicide and sexual offences to fraud, drugs and proceeds of crime. . The specialist education law team advises parents, pupils, schools, teaching and academic staff and local authorities on all aspects of education law including SEN provision and regulatory matters. The employment and discrimination group provides expertise across all areas of contentious and non-contentious work, including injunctions, investigations, directories duties, TUPE and restrictive covenants. The family law group provides expertise in every aspect of public/private childcare law and all forms of financial proceedings including Remote Private Financial Dispute Resolution. The personal injury and clinical negligence groups conduct cases at every level and clients include both claimants and defendants, dealing with fatal and catastrophic injuries, employers liability and public liability cases, fraudulent claims, travel and military cases. The property and estates group undertakes work in all areas of law concerning the ownership, occupation and use of land and buildings, probate and estates disputes as well as traditional Chancery law advice. Public and regulatory law crosses the boundary between civil and criminal law and members of the group provide expertise across a range of legal fields, including professional disciplinary, inquests, health and safety, marine and fisheries and police law. The mediation group has particular strength in the fields of adjudication, arbitration and mediation. Members are regularly appointed as adjudicators or arbitrators in both domestic and international disputes. 3PB’s high profile construction and engineering group provides advocacy and other expertise in all aspects of construction disputes and dispute resolution services, both domestic and international with a focus on arbitration, adjudication and acting as neutrals. The sports law group has an exceptional reputation for its expertise in sports regulation and on-field and off-field discipline, doping issues, contractual disputes, defamation and libel and IP.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Head of Chambers | BERKLEY QC, David | david.berkley@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Chief Executive | ASTILL, Simon | simon.astill@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Chambers Director | WILDISH, Matthew | matthew.wildish@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Barrister Profiles
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Stephen Abberley | Stephen Abberley thrives on challenges. He enjoys a complicated set of facts,… | View Profile |
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Ms Lola-Rose Avery | Lola-Rose Avery joined 3PB as a family barrister in October 2020, following… | View Profile |
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Ashley Blood-Halvorsen | Ashley Blood-Halvorsen is a British-Canadian originally from Toronto, specialising in Business &… | View Profile |
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Nathalie Bull | Nathalie Bull joined 3PB in February 2019 and is a barrister who… | View Profile |
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Hannah Bush | Hannah Bush was called to the Bar in 2007 and began practice… | View Profile |
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Carol Clelland | A former Director and Head of the Care Department at the law… | View Profile |
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Suzanne Coleclough | Suzanne specialises in family law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1990… | View Profile |
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Dorian Day | Dorian specialises in all aspects of work involving familial and relationship breakdown.… | View Profile |
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Neil Fawcett | Neil Fawcett practices primarily in the fields of Property, Banking and Financial… | View Profile |
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Rebecca Franklin | Rebecca is a family law barrister – called to the Bar in… | View Profile |
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Adeo Fraser | Adeo Fraser is a busy junior family law barrister who advises and… | View Profile |
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Michael George | Michael is a specialist family practitioner with over 25 years experience. He… | View Profile |
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Matiss Krumins | Matiss Krumins was called to the Bar in 2008 and qualified as… | View Profile |
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Theresa Lim | Theresa Lim qualified as a solicitor in April 2005, and transferred to… | View Profile |
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Elizabeth McGrath QC | Elizabeth McGrath QC (Liz) was called to the bar in 1987 and… | View Profile |
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Vanessa Meachin QC | Vanessa Meachin QC is a family law specialist and has developed a… | View Profile |
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Lawrence Messling | Lawrence is an experienced family law barrister advising in public law children cases,… | View Profile |
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Andrew Neaves | Andrew Neaves is a highly-experienced family barrister who has exclusively specialised in… | View Profile |
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Luke Nelson | Luke Nelson took tenancy at 3PB following successful completion of his pupillage… | View Profile |
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Lydia Pemberton | Lydia has a traditional chancery practice and has developed an extensive understanding… | View Profile |
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Sarah Tiernay | Sarah practises exclusively in children law and has considerable experience in public… | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Barristers : 215 Staff : 50Languages
All main business languagesMemberships
English Bar Council (individual membership)3PB > Set Profile
With its opening of our Bournemouth office in 1973, 3PB found a home on the South Coast. Our office has a busy full service practice advising solicitors, in-house counsel, insurance claim professionals and other business professionals as well as high net worth individuals, on the full range of legal issues.
THE CHAMBERS
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), is one of the UK’s oldest and fourth largest chambers in England providing a comprehensive legal advocacy and advisory service to businesses and individuals alike. Headed by commercial barrister David Berkley QC, our 215 barristers – including 14 silks – deliver real expertise and specialist knowledge across the full range of legal dispute areas, assisted by some 50 clerks and other staff.
Our barristers offer legal representation and advice across the UK from six locations: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester. The chambers operates as a single national legal business from its six well-equipped offices and is fully accredited by the Bar Council to provide CPD courses and is IiP and BarMark accredited. Each office is staffed by friendly and experienced clerks and staff who can advise clients on the most suitable counsel for a particular case, as well as discuss fees and provide estimates for anticipated work.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Chambers is a full-service barristers’ set, offering legal expertise from 12 specialist teams. See www.3pb.co.uk for more details.
The commercial group advises on company, contract and commercial disputes including professional negligence claims, as well as insolvency, energy law and intellectual property.. The criminal law group advises and acts in the full range of criminal law issues from homicide and sexual offences to fraud, drugs and proceeds of crime. . The specialist education law team advises parents, pupils, schools, teaching and academic staff and local authorities on all aspects of education law including SEN provision and regulatory matters. The employment and discrimination group provides expertise across all areas of contentious and non-contentious work, including injunctions, investigations, directories duties, TUPE and restrictive covenants. The family law group provides expertise in every aspect of public/private childcare law and all forms of financial proceedings including Remote Private Financial Dispute Resolution. The personal injury and clinical negligence groups conduct cases at every level and clients include both claimants and defendants, dealing with fatal and catastrophic injuries, employers liability and public liability cases, fraudulent claims, travel and military cases. The property and estates group undertakes work in all areas of law concerning the ownership, occupation and use of land and buildings, probate and estates disputes as well as traditional Chancery law advice. Public and regulatory law crosses the boundary between civil and criminal law and members of the group provide expertise across a range of legal fields, including professional disciplinary, inquests, health and safety, marine and fisheries and police law. The mediation group has particular strength in the fields of adjudication, arbitration and mediation. Members are regularly appointed as adjudicators or arbitrators in both domestic and international disputes. 3PB’s high profile construction and engineering group provides advocacy and other expertise in all aspects of construction disputes and dispute resolution services, both domestic and international with a focus on arbitration, adjudication and acting as neutrals. The sports law group has an exceptional reputation for its expertise in sports regulation and on-field and off-field discipline, doping issues, contractual disputes, defamation and libel and IP.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Practice Director | Rob Leonard | robert.leonard@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Barrister | Hamish Dunlop | hamish.dunlop@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Staff Figures
Barristers : 215 Staff : 50Languages
All main business languagesMemberships
English Bar Council (individual membership)3PB > Set Profile
Our Birmingham office opened in 2016. It is now a busy, full service practice advising solicitors, in-house counsel, insurance claims professionals and other business professionals as well as high net worth individuals on the full range of legal issues.
THE CHAMBERS
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), is one of the UK’s oldest and fourth largest chambers in England providing a comprehensive legal advocacy and advisory service to businesses and individuals alike. Headed by commercial barrister David Berkley QC, our 215 barristers – including 14 silks – deliver real expertise and specialist knowledge across the full range of legal dispute areas, assisted by some 50 clerks and other staff.
Our barristers offer legal representation and advice across the UK from six locations: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester. The chambers operates as a single national legal business from its six well-equipped offices and is fully accredited by the Bar Council to provide CPD courses and is IiP and BarMark accredited. Each office is staffed by friendly and experienced clerks and staff who can advise clients on the most suitable counsel for a particular case, as well as discuss fees and provide estimates for anticipated work.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Chambers is a full-service barristers’ set, offering legal expertise from 12 specialist teams. See www.3pb.co.uk for more details.
The commercial group advises on company, contract and commercial disputes including professional negligence claims, as well as insolvency, energy law and intellectual property.. The criminal law group advises and acts in the full range of criminal law issues from homicide and sexual offences to fraud, drugs and proceeds of crime. . The specialist education law team advises parents, pupils, schools, teaching and academic staff and local authorities on all aspects of education law including SEN provision and regulatory matters. The employment and discrimination group provides expertise across all areas of contentious and non-contentious work, including injunctions, investigations, directories duties, TUPE and restrictive covenants. The family law group provides expertise in every aspect of public/private childcare law and all forms of financial proceedings including Remote Private Financial Dispute Resolution. The personal injury and clinical negligence groups conduct cases at every level and clients include both claimants and defendants, dealing with fatal and catastrophic injuries, employers liability and public liability cases, fraudulent claims, travel and military cases. The property and estates group undertakes work in all areas of law concerning the ownership, occupation and use of land and buildings, probate and estates disputes as well as traditional Chancery law advice. Public and regulatory law crosses the boundary between civil and criminal law and members of the group provide expertise across a range of legal fields, including professional disciplinary, inquests, health and safety, marine and fisheries and police law. The mediation group has particular strength in the fields of adjudication, arbitration and mediation. Members are regularly appointed as adjudicators or arbitrators in both domestic and international disputes. 3PB’s high profile construction and engineering group provides advocacy and other expertise in all aspects of construction disputes and dispute resolution services, both domestic and international with a focus on arbitration, adjudication and acting as neutrals. The sports law group has an exceptional reputation for its expertise in sports regulation and on-field and off-field discipline, doping issues, contractual disputes, defamation and libel and IP.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Practice Director | Ian Charlton | ian.charlton@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Barrister | Elizabeth McGrath | elizabeth.mcgrath@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Staff Figures
Barristers : 215 Staff : 50Languages
All main business languagesMemberships
English Bar Council (individual membership)3PB > Set Profile
Our Bristol office opened in 2005, strengthening our reach on the Western Circuit. This office has a busy full service practice, advising solicitors, in-house counsel, insurance claims professionals and other business professionals as well as high net worth individuals on the full range of legal issues.
THE CHAMBERS
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), is one of the UK’s oldest and fourth largest chambers in England providing a comprehensive legal advocacy and advisory service to businesses and individuals alike. Headed by commercial barrister David Berkley QC, our 215 barristers – including 14 silks – deliver real expertise and specialist knowledge across the full range of legal dispute areas, assisted by some 50 clerks and other staff.
Our barristers offer legal representation and advice across the UK from six locations: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester. The chambers operates as a single national legal business from its six well-equipped offices and is fully accredited by the Bar Council to provide CPD courses and is IiP and BarMark accredited. Each office is staffed by friendly and experienced clerks and staff who can advise clients on the most suitable counsel for a particular case, as well as discuss fees and provide estimates for anticipated work.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Chambers is a full-service barristers’ set, offering legal expertise from 12 specialist teams. See www.3pb.co.uk for more details.
The commercial group advises on company, contract and commercial disputes including professional negligence claims, as well as insolvency, energy law and intellectual property.. The criminal law group advises and acts in the full range of criminal law issues from homicide and sexual offences to fraud, drugs and proceeds of crime. . The specialist education law team advises parents, pupils, schools, teaching and academic staff and local authorities on all aspects of education law including SEN provision and regulatory matters. The employment and discrimination group provides expertise across all areas of contentious and non-contentious work, including injunctions, investigations, directories duties, TUPE and restrictive covenants. The family law group provides expertise in every aspect of public/private childcare law and all forms of financial proceedings including Remote Private Financial Dispute Resolution. The personal injury and clinical negligence groups conduct cases at every level and clients include both claimants and defendants, dealing with fatal and catastrophic injuries, employers liability and public liability cases, fraudulent claims, travel and military cases. The property and estates group undertakes work in all areas of law concerning the ownership, occupation and use of land and buildings, probate and estates disputes as well as traditional Chancery law advice. Public and regulatory law crosses the boundary between civil and criminal law and members of the group provide expertise across a range of legal fields, including professional disciplinary, inquests, health and safety, marine and fisheries and police law. The mediation group has particular strength in the fields of adjudication, arbitration and mediation. Members are regularly appointed as adjudicators or arbitrators in both domestic and international disputes. 3PB’s high profile construction and engineering group provides advocacy and other expertise in all aspects of construction disputes and dispute resolution services, both domestic and international with a focus on arbitration, adjudication and acting as neutrals. The sports law group has an exceptional reputation for its expertise in sports regulation and on-field and off-field discipline, doping issues, contractual disputes, defamation and libel and IP.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Chambers Director | Mark Heath | mark.heath@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Barrister | Matthew Cannings | matthew.cannings@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Staff Figures
Barristers : 215 Staff : 50Languages
All main business languagesMemberships
English Bar Council (individual membership)3PB > Set Profile
Our Oxford office opened in 1990. It is now a busy office, providing legal services to solicitors, in-house counsel, insurance claims professionals and other business professionals as well as high net worth individuals on the full range of legal issues.
THE CHAMBERS
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), is one of the UK’s oldest and fourth largest chambers in England providing a comprehensive legal advocacy and advisory service to businesses and individuals alike. Headed by commercial barrister David Berkley QC, our 215 barristers – including 14 silks – deliver real expertise and specialist knowledge across the full range of legal dispute areas, assisted by some 50 clerks and other staff.
Our barristers offer legal representation and advice across the UK from six locations: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester. The chambers operates as a single national legal business from its six well-equipped offices and is fully accredited by the Bar Council to provide CPD courses and is IiP and BarMark accredited. Each office is staffed by friendly and experienced clerks and staff who can advise clients on the most suitable counsel for a particular case, as well as discuss fees and provide estimates for anticipated work.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Chambers is a full-service barristers’ set, offering legal expertise from 12 specialist teams. See www.3pb.co.uk for more details.
The commercial group advises on company, contract and commercial disputes including professional negligence claims, as well as insolvency, energy law and intellectual property.. The criminal law group advises and acts in the full range of criminal law issues from homicide and sexual offences to fraud, drugs and proceeds of crime. . The specialist education law team advises parents, pupils, schools, teaching and academic staff and local authorities on all aspects of education law including SEN provision and regulatory matters. The employment and discrimination group provides expertise across all areas of contentious and non-contentious work, including injunctions, investigations, directories duties, TUPE and restrictive covenants. The family law group provides expertise in every aspect of public/private childcare law and all forms of financial proceedings including Remote Private Financial Dispute Resolution. The personal injury and clinical negligence groups conduct cases at every level and clients include both claimants and defendants, dealing with fatal and catastrophic injuries, employers liability and public liability cases, fraudulent claims, travel and military cases. The property and estates group undertakes work in all areas of law concerning the ownership, occupation and use of land and buildings, probate and estates disputes as well as traditional Chancery law advice. Public and regulatory law crosses the boundary between civil and criminal law and members of the group provide expertise across a range of legal fields, including professional disciplinary, inquests, health and safety, marine and fisheries and police law. The mediation group has particular strength in the fields of adjudication, arbitration and mediation. Members are regularly appointed as adjudicators or arbitrators in both domestic and international disputes. 3PB’s high profile construction and engineering group provides advocacy and other expertise in all aspects of construction disputes and dispute resolution services, both domestic and international with a focus on arbitration, adjudication and acting as neutrals. The sports law group has an exceptional reputation for its expertise in sports regulation and on-field and off-field discipline, doping issues, contractual disputes, defamation and libel and IP.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Chambers Director | Russell Porter | russell.porter@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Barrister | Andrew MacPhail | andrew.macphail@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Staff Figures
Barristers : 215 Staff : 50Languages
All main business languagesMemberships
English Bar Council (individual membership)3PB > Set Profile
Our Winchester office opened in 1990. It is a busy centre offering advice to solicitors, in-house counsel, insurance claims professionals and other business professionals as well as high net worth individuals on the full range of legal issues.
THE CHAMBERS
3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), is one of the UK’s oldest and fourth largest chambers in England providing a comprehensive legal advocacy and advisory service to businesses and individuals alike. Headed by commercial barrister David Berkley QC, our 215 barristers – including 14 silks – deliver real expertise and specialist knowledge across the full range of legal dispute areas, assisted by some 50 clerks and other staff.
Our barristers offer legal representation and advice across the UK from six locations: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Oxford and Winchester. The chambers operates as a single national legal business from its six well-equipped offices and is fully accredited by the Bar Council to provide CPD courses and is IiP and BarMark accredited. Each office is staffed by friendly and experienced clerks and staff who can advise clients on the most suitable counsel for a particular case, as well as discuss fees and provide estimates for anticipated work.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Chambers is a full-service barristers’ set, offering legal expertise from 12 specialist teams. See www.3pb.co.uk for more details.
The commercial group advises on company, contract and commercial disputes including professional negligence claims, as well as insolvency, energy law and intellectual property.. The criminal law group advises and acts in the full range of criminal law issues from homicide and sexual offences to fraud, drugs and proceeds of crime. . The specialist education law team advises parents, pupils, schools, teaching and academic staff and local authorities on all aspects of education law including SEN provision and regulatory matters. The employment and discrimination group provides expertise across all areas of contentious and non-contentious work, including injunctions, investigations, directories duties, TUPE and restrictive covenants. The family law group provides expertise in every aspect of public/private childcare law and all forms of financial proceedings including Remote Private Financial Dispute Resolution. The personal injury and clinical negligence groups conduct cases at every level and clients include both claimants and defendants, dealing with fatal and catastrophic injuries, employers liability and public liability cases, fraudulent claims, travel and military cases. The property and estates group undertakes work in all areas of law concerning the ownership, occupation and use of land and buildings, probate and estates disputes as well as traditional Chancery law advice. Public and regulatory law crosses the boundary between civil and criminal law and members of the group provide expertise across a range of legal fields, including professional disciplinary, inquests, health and safety, marine and fisheries and police law. The mediation group has particular strength in the fields of adjudication, arbitration and mediation. Members are regularly appointed as adjudicators or arbitrators in both domestic and international disputes. 3PB’s high profile construction and engineering group provides advocacy and other expertise in all aspects of construction disputes and dispute resolution services, both domestic and international with a focus on arbitration, adjudication and acting as neutrals. The sports law group has an exceptional reputation for its expertise in sports regulation and on-field and off-field discipline, doping issues, contractual disputes, defamation and libel and IP.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Chambers Director | Stuart Pringle | stuart.pringle@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Barrister | Adam Feest QC | adam.feest@3pb.co.uk | 0330 332 2633 |
Staff Figures
Barristers : 215 Staff : 50Languages
All main business languagesTop Tier Set Rankings
- Regional Bar Business and regulatory crime (including health and safety)
- Regional Bar Crime (general and fraud)
- Regional Bar Employment
Set Rankings
- Regional Bar Employment
- Regional Bar Family and children law
- Regional Bar Family and children law
- Regional Bar Clinical negligence
- Regional Bar Family and children law
- London Bar Police law (defendant)
- London Bar Employment
- Regional Bar Personal injury
- Regional Bar Property and construction
- London Bar Education
- London Bar Inquests and inquiries
- London Bar Intellectual property
- London Bar Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
- London Bar Children law (including public and private law)
- London Bar Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
- London Bar Professional negligence
- Regional Bar Chancery, probate, and tax
- Regional Bar Chancery, probate, and tax
- Regional Bar Commercial litigation
- Regional Bar Commercial litigation
- Regional Bar Company and insolvency
- Regional Bar Court of Protection and community care
- Regional Bar Court of Protection and community care
- Regional Bar Education
- Regional Bar Education
- Regional Bar Planning and environment
- Regional Bar Professional negligence
- Regional Bar Property and construction
- London Bar Set overviews: England and Wales
- Regional Bar Set overviews: England and Wales