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3 Temple Gardens > Set Profile

The set:  Chambers was founded in 1964. In the early 1970s the decision was taken to specialise in criminal law and 3TG has continued to expand and flourish ever since. Today, with 69 tenants led by 5 Queen’s Counsel, the set provides strength, depth and dedicated representation at every level of the criminal law.

Several of its former members are judges, including one who was appointed Judge Advocate General. Chambers has an extensive and growing client base, undertaking publicly funded and private work. We are both instructed top tier firms in London and the South East, and increasingly sought-after on other circuits, with professional clients instructing chambers from Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Wales. With a strong reputation for being efficient, professional and reliable, while remaining friendly and approachable, with one of the best clerking teams around, able to identify the most suitable barrister for every brief, ensuring that Chambers extremely high standards of work are maintained. In the past year, chambers have welcomed ten new members and seen Jeremy Wainwright’s appointment as Queen’s Counsel. Three members of chambers have been appointed silk in the past four years.

In addition to mainstay areas of fraud, murder, serious sexual offences and organised crime, drugs, firearms, kidnap etc Chambers has continued to develop a reputation in financial and economic crime both domestically and internationally. Chambers has strengthened the teams dealing with business crime and related financial matters, serious sexual offences and extradition.

Types of work undertaken: 3TG’s core areas of work include large-scale frauds (boiler room, phoenix, mortgage etc); major drug conspiracies, many involving substantial telecoms, PGP and computer evidence, and many with hundreds of thousands of pages; murder trials not least involving deaths of serving police officers; POCA proceedings -restraint, asset recovery, confiscation and civil forfeiture; and appellate work – Several members of chambers were recently instructed in Operation Midas, a large-scale fraud involving the alleged misappropriation of grant funding from the Welsh Assembly and the EU and the defrauding of private investors. Chambers are also instructed in Operation Balaban, a sophisticated, multi million-pound carbon credit fraud which branches into frauds involving gold mines and high value diamonds. We can also boast expertise in such areas as art crime; asset forfeiture and confiscation; civil and commercial; coroners court; courts martial; extradition; firearm legislation; food safety; health and safety; human rights; international arbitration; police discipline; judicial review; landlord and tenant; licensing and regulatory; medical negligence; money laundering; murder; online child abuse offences; organised crime; parole hearings; planning/properties; prison law; public access; road traffic; serious sexual offences; social media law; sports law; terrorism; tribunals and inquiries; and youth court.

Recruitment: In the past year chambers has welcomed ten new members; six from other sets and four from pupillage. This process of recruitment, reinforcement and expansion will continue. As part of the ongoing recruitment policy, 3TG welcome applications to join chambers. Please contact Kevin Aldridge (Chambers’ Business Manager).

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	John Femi-Ola QC	Queen’s Counsel	View Profile
	Tim Forte		View Profile
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	Saul Herman		View Profile
	Jodie-Jane Hitchcock		View Profile
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	Justin Hugheston-Roberts		View Profile
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	Naeem Karbhari		View Profile
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	Gemma Noble		View Profile
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	Nadine Radford QC	Queen’s Counsel	View Profile
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	Richard Reynolds		View Profile
	Jonathan Rosen		View Profile
	Gordon Ross		View Profile
	Peter Rouch QC	Queen’s Counsel	View Profile
	David Ryan		View Profile
	Sibby Salter		View Profile
	William Saunders		View Profile
	Simon Shannon		View Profile
	Brian Stork		View Profile
	Michael Stradling		View Profile
	Jeremy Wainwright QC		View Profile
	Nick Wells		View Profile
	Leesha Whawell		View Profile
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	Alec Williams		View Profile
	Hannah Williams		View Profile
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3 Temple Gardens > Set Profile

3TG has almost 50 years of expertise as a criminal set. Chambers’ 60 tenants, led by six Queen’s Counsel, provide strength, depth and dedicated representation at every level. Several former members are judges, including one who was appointed Judge Advocate General. Chambers has an extensive and constantly growing client base, undertaking publicly funded and private work. 3TG is instructed by top tier firms in London and the South East, and increasingly sought-after on other circuits, with professional clients instructing Chambers from Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Wales. 3TG has a strong reputation for being efficient, professional and reliable, while remaining friendly and approachable. Chambers has one of the best clerking teams around, able to identify the most suitable barrister for every case, ensuring that their extremely high standards of work are maintained. In the past two years, 3TG has welcomed ten new members and seen Jeremy Wainwright’s appointment as Queen’s Counsel.

The marketing team organises forward thinking and practical seminars which in the last year have attracted panellists such as Baroness Butler-Sloss, Mrs Justice Andrews DBE and the Human Trafficking Foundation. Future highlights include a seminar on cryptocurrencies with a BBC correspondent and Transparency International as well as seminars on cannabis regulation and financial crime. 3TG is also currently developing a programme of training seminars for law firms and in-house departments and is happy to collaborate to develop these on a bespoke basis. In addition, they have engaged a leading design agency to rebrand the set.

The Pupillage Committee continues to work hard to maintain high standards and last year Chambers saw the highest number of applicants in a number of years. Chambers is also proud of and supports access-to-the Bar initiatives including Ruth Reid’s ‘Cake & Counsel’ which led to her being nominated for an award in the UK Diversity Legal Awards.

3TG is instructed in the full range of serious and general crime cases including, but not limited to, terrorism, murder, violence, drugs, organised crime and sexual offences. They have continued to build their extradition team who now accept instructions from both the CPS Extradition Unit and on behalf of requested persons in both first instance and appellate proceedings. In addition, they have further developed their reputation in financial crime both domestically and internationally. Chambers has a respected business crime team which has received instructions for the defence and prosecution on cases brought by the CPS Specialist Fraud Division, the NCA, the Insolvency Service and the SFO. Recent case highlights include Operation Midas, a large-scale fraud involving the alleged misappropriation of grant funding from the Welsh Assembly, the EU and the defrauding of private investors. Members were also instructed in Operation Balaban, a sophisticated, multi-million pound carbon credit fraud which included aspects involving gold mines and high value diamonds. Three members of Chambers represented two of the defendants at the trial in this matter involving a discredited expert which caused the trial to collapse at Southwark Crown Court last year. In addition, two members secured the acquittal of the CEO of a hospice trust in an allegation of fraud totalling £1.5m brought by the Department of Health Anti-Fraud Unit at Bristol Crown Court.