3TG

THE CHAMBERS 

Chambers was founded in 1964. In the early 1970s the decision was taken to specialise in criminal law, although over the past few years Chambers has also flourished in the areas of civil and family work. Today, the set provides strength, depth and dedicated representation at every level. Several of its former members are judges, including one who was appointed Judge Advocate General. 3TG and a number of individual KC and Junior members are ranked highly in the legal directories. Chambers has an extensive and growing client base, undertaking publicly funded and private work. It is both 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. With a strong reputation for being efficient, professional and reliable, while remaining friendly and approachable, Chambers have one of the best clerking teams around, able to identify the most suitable barrister for every brief, ensuring that its extremely high standards of work are maintained. 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. The marketing team organises forward thinking and practical seminars which have attracted panellists such as Baroness Butler-Sloss, Mrs Justice Andrews DBE and the Human Trafficking Foundation. Future highlights include 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.

WORK UNDERTAKEN 

3TG’s core areas of work include Homicide, 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. Most recently, Tim Forte has been at the forefront of the EncroChat wave of cases, being recognised as one of the preeminent Counsel in dealing with the Encro legal arguments. Members of Chambers have been successful in securing acquittals in high-profile murder cases. Several members of chambers were 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 were also instructed in Operation Balaban, a sophisticated, multi million-pound carbon credit fraud which branches into frauds involving gold mines and high value diamonds, which collapsed on the discrediting of the Crown’s “expert witness”. Chambers can also boast expertise in such areas as 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.