Welcome to the Chambers UK Bar Guide 2025. 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.    

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

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This spotlight table ranks four silks and eight juniors with an established practice handling personal injury claims involving animals. This includes matters with a head of liability under the Animals Act 1972 but also considers cases brought under negligence, employers’ liability or occupiers’ liability. Many of the featured barristers have experience with cases involving horses, whether in professional horse-racing, the military use of horses or leisure riding accidents. Other work includes attacks by livestock and injuries caused by dog bites and dog strikes. 

The new table arises from submissions to our Animal Law section, which focuses on animal welfare rather than injuries caused by animals. Whilst the personal injury submissions were not relevant there, given the number of submissions and the market response to interviews, we are very pleased to open this new table to recognise the work being done in this practice area. 

The Chambers UK Bar 2025 research took place between January 2024 and July 2024.   

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.    

Gutman v Apple Inc & Ors: Court of Appeal sides with funders
As part of a long-running CAT dispute, Apple appealed whether the CAT had the ability to order the funders be paid out of the damages awarded, prior to the payment of the class. 

What is an extradition offence - El Khouri v United States
The Supreme Court has quashed the extradition order of a trader in a case that centred on the definition of an “extradition offence”. 

UK Bar 2026 Mediators Submitting Change
Discover the changes to the Mediators submissions for the Chambers UK Bar 2026 guide.

SkyKick v Sky: Supreme Court Rules on “Bad Faith” Trade Marks
In a judgement handed down on the 13^th of November, the Supreme Court has ruled that Sky acted in bad faith when applying for certain trade marks.

Chambers UK Bar Awards 2024| Interviews with winners
Hear from some of the winners of the UK Bar 2024 Bar Awards in this article.

Oakwood Solicitors Ltd v Menzies: Costs Judgements shakes up Personal Injury Billing Practices
On the 23^rd of October, the Supreme Court handed down its judgement in Oakwood v Menzies, in this article The Chambers UK Bar team discusses the case.

Up and Comers at the Bar
Discovered the barristers who are making their mark across practice areas, with rankings in 3 or more practice areas in the UK Bar 2025 guide.

Stars at the Bar 2025
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 2025.

New ranking table – Personal Injury: Animal Claims
The Chambers UK Bar 2025 guide includes several brand new ranking tables, one of which is the Personal Injury: Animal Claims

Independent review into the Criminal Cases Review Commission published
The Chambers UK Bar team discuss the review into the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which has recently been published.

Court of Appeal interprets POCA in the context of corporate supply chains
The Chambers UK Bar team discuss the Court of Appeal's judgment in R (World Uyghur Congress) v NCA.

Infected Blood Inquiry
The Chambers UK Bar team discuss the Infected Blood Inquiry and the barristers involved in the case.

New Treasury Counsel appointed
On 1 April 2024, new Treasury Counsel appointments came into effect, enlarging ‘The Room’ with the addition of three new Senior Treasury Counsel and five new Junior Treasury Counsel.

Growth and Developments in Sanctions in the UK
Learn about the developments in sanctions that the Chambers UK Bar team discovered during their research into this year's guide.

Consumer Law in the UK Bar 2024
Chambers UK Bar team provides an overview of Consumer Law rankings in the 2024 guide.

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.   

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