• 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Team shines in the Legal 500 2025

    Described in the Legal 500’s latest edition as “‘a fantastic set’ that assists both claimants and defendants with all kinds of personal injury claims, from catastrophic injury to industrial disease”; with “‘excellent counsel at the top with good experience’, offering expertise across the full spectrum of clinical negligence litigation”, 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team has much to celebrate. Achieving a total of 16 rankings across 4 Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and...

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    3PB achieves record rankings in the Legal 500’s 2025 edition

    3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), one of the UK's largest chambers, is celebrating this year again its rankings - totalling 167 - in the Legal 500 2025’s edition published today, a 15% increase on last year’s 145. The set is ranked in 23 areas of law, across 4 UK Circuits: London, South Eastern, Western and the Midlands. 3PB’s barristers are also ranked in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. The Legal 500 acknowledges 3PB...

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    Lucy Bill writes for ARAG on fixed recoverable costs in low value claims

    Lucy Bill, specialist personal injury and clinical negligence barrister at 3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), has written for ARAG on fixed recoverable costs in low value clinical negligence claims. In the article Lucy discusses recent FRC reforms partially influenced by the doubling of Claimant costs for low value clinical negligence cases and what this could mean for such cases in the future. Lucy concludes by encouraging practitioners to gain an understanding of the upcoming changes...

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  • Ocktoberfest 2024

    3PB teams up with Slater and Gordon to host Oktoberfest 2024 celebration in aid of Child Brain Injury Trust

    3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) and its personal injury and clinical negligence teams, led by Michelle Marnham, are delighted to be hosting an Oktoberfest celebration in London in October 2024, alongside law firm Slater and Gordon, with all proceeds going to the Child Brain Injury Trust (CBIT). Taking place on Tuesday 1 October from 6pm at the Munich Cricket Club, 1 Abbey Orchard Street in Victoria, London SW1 this event promises a mini Bavarian wonderland...

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    Three 3PB barristers become members

    3PB are pleased to announce that three barristers have become full tenants of the 250-barrister national chambers. Rhiannon Frowde, Kate Davies and Charlotte Steer (pictured left to right from the top) have all successfully completed their probationary tenancies with 3PB, having done all or some of their pupillages at other chambers. Former medical research fellow Rhiannon Frowde (call:2022) is based from 3PB's London office and will continue to focus on clinical negligence and personal injury...

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    Rosa Thomas and Lucy Bill become members

    3PB are pleased to announce that barristers Rosa Thomas and Lucy Bill (pictured here, left to right) have successfully completed their twelve-month pupillages today and become tenants with the 250-barrister, national chambers. Former Oxford University graduate, public affairs specialist and researcher Rosa Thomas (call:2023) is joining 3PB's London office and will be focusing on employment and discrimination claims as well as disputes in the education sector, following her specialist pupillage at 3PB in these two...

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    Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Newsletter - March 2024

    Michelle Marnham edits our Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence newsletter, with analysis from David Kemeny, Tom Webb, Charles Fulton, Gemma Ralph, Hamish Dunlop and Jack Felvus of the following cases: Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company Limited [2024] UKSC 6, Pearson -v- Secretary of State for Defence [2024] EWCA Civ 150, Juj v John Lewis Partnership plc [2023] EWCA Civ 1507, R (Peiris) v First-tier Tribunal, CICA & Secretary of State for Justice [2023] EWCA Civ 1527 and Paul and Another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1.

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    Michelle Marnham and Jeremy Warner review landmark Supreme Court Judgment of Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

    3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) Head of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Michelle Marnham (pictured here), alongside future 3PB pupil Jeremy Warner, have written on the Supreme Court Judgement in Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Michelle and Jeremy explore the wide-reaching implications of the landmark Judgment, including its overturning of a 20-plus year precedent often used in secondary victim claims within the context of clinical negligence. The Judgment will significantly limit the ability of...

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    Another bumper for 3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team in this year’s legal directories

    3PB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team has a lot to celebrate this month. Fresh from organising their inaugural PI and Clin Neg conference in Southampton this month – an all-day conference attended by 140 solicitors – the team can now enjoy its excellent set of results in legal directories the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners 2024. Achieving a total of 18 rankings across four Court Circuits (London, the Midlands, South Eastern and Western),...

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    3PB celebrates 81 rankings in Chambers and Partners 2024

    3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) breaks another record in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 81 accolades. The national set is rewarded with rankings in 18 areas of law, in the London Bar as well as in the South Eastern, Western and Midlands Circuits and exceptional comments on its service delivery, including praise for its “sublime service” and its "ability to manage matters in a professional and comprehensive manner second...

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    3PB achieves a record 145 rankings in this year’s Legal 500

    3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), the UK's third largest chambers, is delighted to report this year again an outstanding number of rankings - totalling 145 - in the Legal 500 2024’s edition published today, a 12% increase on last year’s 130. The set has achieved its rankings across 5 large UK regions - or Circuits (London, South Eastern, Western, Midlands and Chester and Wales) - in 21 areas of law. 3PB is also ranked in...

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  • Michelle Marnham and Jeremy Warner review important clinical negligence case of Malik v St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    3PB's Head of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Groups, Michelle Marnham (pictured here), together with future 3PB pupil barrister Jeremy Warner (who joins in April 2024) have reviewed the case of Sidra Bilal, Hassaan Aziz Malik (Administrators on behalf of the estate of Mukhtar Malik, deceased) v St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, [2023] EWCA Civ 605. This Court of Appeal decision offers an interesting insight into the post-Montgomery landscape. It provides further clarification on...

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