Consumer Law in the UK Bar 2024

Here at Chambers, we’re obviously committed to providing the most up-to-date reflection of the market as it stands today. As a result we not only strive to make our existing ranking tables as accurate as possible but we also look to add and update new sections where appropriate.  

In that spirit, we’ve seen a change to our coverage of consumer law this year. We’ve kept Consumer Law itself as a distinct table but confined it to those barristers handling a hefty diet of cases relating to trading standards law, food law, unfair trading, product safety, and CMA investigations. What we’ve further done, however, is to institute a new distinct section on consumer finance which had previously been subsumed in the wider consumer law table.  

Consumer Finance covers all areas of non-commercial lending, including the core areas of consumer credit and mortgage lending.  

This is a heavily litigated field, with practitioners appearing regularly in courts across the country and one whose current trends include mortgage prisoner claims, solar panel mis-selling, motor finance claims, undisclosed mortgage brokers’ commission claims, timeshare claims, and the long-running PPI litigation.  

Non-contentious work also features prominently in this sector, and as part of this, we’ve looked at practitioners involved in drafting regulated agreements, reviewing statutory notices, and advising on the technical requirements of the FCA Handbook and the Consumer Credit Act 1974.