Welcome to the Chambers UK Bar Guide 2026. Search the legal market’s best chambers and barristers using the search functionality above.    

Chambers UK Bar researches and recommends sets of chambers and individual barristers across the UK using rigorous independent research. Our experienced and dedicated research team conducts thousands of in-depth one-to-one interviews every year with clients, instructing solicitors and barristers to produce our ranking tables, as well as indispensable analysis into the legal market.     

Chambers and Partners provides unparalleled recommendations for those looking to buy legal services in the UK. Our trusted and market-leading rankings provide all the information necessary to make an informed decision that can be relied on for when it matters.     

The Chambers UK Bar guide is released online annually in October.     

To learn more about how we conduct our research and what goes into each stage of our research, please visit our methodology page.  

Submissions for the Chambers UK Bar 2027 guide are open, you can view the full schedule here.  

Keep up to date with all of your relevant submission deadlines throughout the year and get personalised submission reminders in your calendar here. 

Industrial Relations: This new table highlights three sets, twelve silks and six juniors who have established leading practices handling industrial relations and trade union matters. It includes policy work on government/union relations and other advisory work, as well as barristers providing representation on behalf of or against unions in employment disputes.    

The Chambers UK Bar 2026 research took place between January 2025 and July 2025.    

Over 80 practice areas are featured covering the full spread of public, commercial and criminal law, and barristers' work both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions is investigated in-depth.     

From ADR to NCDR
Chambers has changed the name of the Family/Matrimonial: ADR to Family/Matrimonial: Non-Court Dispute Resolution to reflect changes in the market.

Client Service at the Bar 2026
Discover the sets commended for providing exceptional client service, as researched by the Chambers UK Bar team.       

Restructuring plans on the rise
Restructuring plans, introduced in 2020 in response to the Covid crisis, have become a go-to tool in the restructuring and insolvency kit. The ability to use the cross-class cram down mechanism allows for companies to ensure deals take place in spite of possible dissenting groups of creditors. The increase in the use of these plans has, perhaps inevitably, led to an increase in contentious claims in the space with groups involved in the restructuring bid opposed to aspects of the plans. 

Stars at the Bar 2026
The Chambers UK Bar team present the Stars at the Bar, all of whom have been researched and rank in the Chambers UK Bar guide 2026.

Supreme Court rules on Motor Finance Case
The Supreme Court has ruled that finance lenders in the motor industry will not have to pay compensation to motorists over car finance loans.

Danish tax authority loses its fraudulent misrepresentation battle in the High Court.
The Commercial Court found that Skatteforvaltningen (the Danish Customers and Tax Administration) did not present enough evidence to suggest a fraud was perpetrated by 56 defendants with regard to over 4,000 dividend tax refunds claims to the value of £1.4 billion. 

Changes to Submissions for Chambers UK Bar 2027
Learn about the changes to the submissions for Chambers UK Bar 2027 in this article.

Chambers UK Bar recommends sets of chambers and individual barristers across the UK using rigorous independent research. Our experienced and dedicated research team conducts thousands of in-depth interviews with clients, instructing solicitors and barristers in order to draw up and produce our ranking tables, providing the most comprehensive insights and analysis of these ranked chambers and barristers.   

To learn more about how we conduct our research and what goes into each stage of our research, please visit our methodology page.   

Discover the value of being a ranked firm and tips on how to successfully submit for rankings here.