Changes to Submissions for Chambers UK Bar 2027

Any areas not listed below will be due in February 2026. A full breakdown will appear on the research schedule later this year. 

Administrative & Public Law – London 

Civil Liberties & Human Rights – London 

Civil Liberties & Human Rights – Scotland 

Civil Liberties & Human Rights – The Regions 

Clinical Negligence – Northern 

Commercial Dispute Resolution – London 

Competition Law – London 

Competition Law – The Regions 

Crime – London 

Crime: International Criminal Law – London 

Defamation/Privacy – All Circuits 

Employment – London 

Environment – London  

Family/Matrimonial – London 

Family/Matrimonial: ADR – All Circuits 

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts – London 

Family: Children – London 

Family: Matrimonial Finance – London 

Fraud: Civil – London 

Information Technology – London 

Information Technology – Scotland 

Insurance – London 

International Arbitration: Arbitrators – London 

International Arbitration: Construction/Engineering – London

International Arbitration: General Commercial & Insurance – London 

International Human Rights Law – London 

Life Sciences Regulatory – All Circuits 

Motor Insurance Fraud – All Circuits 

Pensions – London 

Planning – London 

Property Damage – London 

Protest Law – All Circuits 

Public International Law – London 

Sanctions – All Circuits

Some internal changes are taking place at Chambers to allow for a more specialist research team that will be dedicated to UK research from January to July. This enables us to begin researching some of our larger sections earlier than we have done previously. In order to research them, though, we need submissions. 

Any section not listed above will be due in February. The full list of these dates will be made available later in the year.  

Any set struggling to meet a deadline should in the first instance concentrate on submitting their client referees on time. These are always the most time-sensitive part of the research. 

You do not need to get in touch with the research team if you are only going to be one or two days late.  

Submitting your referees late will affect our ability to process them before the start of research and could jeopardise the chances of your referees from being contacted. Submitting your work highlights late could affect your firm’s chance of being asked for an interview and in extreme cases could affect the research team’s ability to assess your work. 

All referees will be contacted between January and July. However, we will be researching many practice areas at different points in the year compared with past years. For example, Insurance will begin in January rather than in March. That means that referees may hear from us at a slightly different time of year than they usually would.