Public Law & Regulatory

Welcome to the 3PB Public Law and Regulatory Group’s web pages. We hope that the information that you find here will both assist and inform you about what our experienced and friendly group has to offer.

Public and administrative law has been practised at 3 Paper Buildings for many years. During that time its importance and jurisdiction has expanded greatly and public law now takes on many guises and features in cases heard before specialist Tribunals, Magistrates’ Courts, Crown and County Courts, the High Court and beyond.

Here at 3PB we have constantly strived to meet the challenges and changes that this area of the law has brought about.

Such is the breadth of the work that we undertake, we have taken a conscious decision to offer truly specialist practitioners in particular areas of what can be broadly be described as administrative law, although some of those areas cross the border between the civil and criminal law jurisdictions. The group is divided into the following specialist units. Follow the links for more information:

Administrative law and planning Team

Education law Team

Asset and Tax Recovery group

Regulatory compliance and consumer protection Team

Legal Assessing

Sports Law

Please do not hesitate to contact one of our dedicated Public Law and Regulatory Group clerks for more information on our group and the services we offer.

About the Group

Public & regulatory law is of ever increasing importance and crosses the boundary between civil and criminal law. Members of the group provide expertise across a wide range of legal fields in this area including:

• Administrative law
• Asset recovery and forfeiture
• Bootlegging and Condemnation
• Civil actions against the police
• Civil fraud
• Civil recovery
• Contempt of court
• Commercial and corporate fraud
• DTI matters
• Education
• EU public law
• Firearms Licensing
• Fisheries
• Food Safety, Toy Safety
• Freezing orders
• General Medical Council matters
• Health & Safety
• Horseracing
• Judicial review
• Licensing
• Marine accident investigations
• Marine regulation
• Money laundering regulations
• Planning
• Pollution
• Proceeds of crime related matters
• Professional regulation
• Public body powers and duties
• Regulatory compliance
• Restraint and receivership orders
• Sports regulation
• Toy safety
• Trading standards
• Ultra vires acts of public bodies
• VAT and duties tribunals

Members of Chambers have been instructed in some of the leading recent cases in their areas and provide advice on policy issues to local authorities and other public bodies. Many combine their public law practices with other specialisms and so are able to offer a wide range of expertise and experience to both private and public body clients.