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Chambers UK Bar 2025 guide launch

Discover who has been ranked as the top legal talent in this year’s guide.

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Chambers UK Bar 2025 guide launch

Discover who has been ranked as the top legal talent in this year’s guide.

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About the Chambers UK Bar Legal Guide 2025

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.    

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.  

Chambers UK Bar 2026 Submissions

Submissions for the Chambers UK Bar 2026 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

Chambers UK Bar Guide 2025: Summary

879
Set rankings
9,836
Individual Rankings
253
Up-and-Coming Junior Barrister Rankings

Chambers UK Bar Guide 2025: Highlights

New in Chambers UK Bar 2025

Personal Injury: Animal Claims

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. 

Chambers UK Bar 2025 Research Timeline

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.    

Latest Legal News: Chambers UK Bar

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.

Meet the Chambers Legal Research Team

James Cowdell Chambers UK Bar Editor
James Cowdell
Head of Research
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Rebecca Patton
Research Manager
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Chambers Author
Alexander Skelton
Principal Research Specialist
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Chambers Author
Jemima Myles
Principal Research Specialist
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About our Legal Rankings

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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In-Depth Overviews

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CONSUMER FINANCE: An Introduction

Never before has the consumer finance lawyer been in such demand. The ever-increasing activity of c...

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CONSUMER LAW: An Introduction

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CRIME: An Introduction

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EXTRADITION: An Introduction

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FINANCIAL CRIME: An Introduction

This year has witnessed several developments in the financial crime landscape: some heralded, other...

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POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture: An Introduction

As forecast in the 2023 introduction by 33 Chancery Lane, the past year has seen a flurry of activi...

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