Changes to Submissions for Chambers UK 2027

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

Administrative & Public Law – Northern Ireland

Administrative & Public Law – Scotland

Administrative & Public Law – UK wide

Administrative & Public Law – Wales

Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant – UK wide

Art and Cultural Property Law – UK wide

Banking & Finance – East Anglia

Banking & Finance – Midlands

Banking & Finance – North East

Banking & Finance – North West

Banking & Finance – Northern Ireland

Banking & Finance – Scotland

Banking & Finance – South West

Banking & Finance – Thames Valley

Banking & Finance – The South

Banking & Finance – Wales

Banking & Finance – Yorkshire

Banking & Finance: Asset–Based Lending – London

Banking & Finance: Corporate Finance: Borrowers – London

Banking & Finance: Corporate Finance: Lenders – London

Banking & Finance: Fund Finance – London

Banking & Finance: Leveraged Finance: Borrowers/Sponsors – London

Banking & Finance: Leveraged Finance: Lenders – London

Civil Liberties & Human Rights – UK wide

Civil Liberties & Human Rights: Prison Law – UK wide

Civil Liberties & Human Rights – Scotland

Clinical Negligence: Mainly Claimant – London

Clinical Negligence: Mainly Defendant – UK wide

Competition Law – London

Competition Law – Northern Ireland

Competition Law – Scotland

Competition Law – The Regions

Competition Law: Litigation – London

Corporate Crime & Investigations – London

Competition Law: Private Enforcement: Claimant – London

Defamation/Reputation Management – Northern Ireland

Defamation/Reputation Management – Scotland

Defamation/Reputation Management – UK wide

Extradition – UK wide

Family/Children Law – London

Family/Children Law: International Abduction, Adoption and Surrogacy – UK wide

Family/Children Law: Public Law Matters – UK wide

Family/Matrimonial – East Anglia

Family/Matrimonial – East Midlands

Family/Matrimonial – North East

Family/Matrimonial – North West

Family/Matrimonial – Northern Ireland

Family/Matrimonial – Scotland

Family/Matrimonial – South West

Family/Matrimonial – Thames Valley

Family/Matrimonial – The South

Family/Matrimonial – Wales

Family/Matrimonial – West Midlands

Family/Matrimonial – Yorkshire

Financial Crime – Scotland

Financial Crime – The Regions

Financial Crime: Individuals – London

Financial Crime: Private Prosecutions – London

Information Technology & Outsourcing – London

Information Technology & Outsourcing – Scotland

Insurance – Scotland

Insurance: Contentious Claims & Reinsurance – UK wide

Insurance: Mainly Policyholders – UK wide

Insurance: Non–contentious – UK wide

Insurance: Volume Claims – UK wide

International Arbitration: Commercial Arbitration – UK wide

International Arbitration: Investor–State Arbitration – UK wide

Life Sciences – UK wide

Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant – London

Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant: Industrial Disease – UK wide

Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant – UK wide

Planning – London

POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture – UK wide

Private Equity: Buyouts – UK wide

Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment – UK wide

Protest Law – UK wide

Real Estate Finance – UK wide

Social Housing – East Anglia

Social Housing – East Midlands

Social Housing – London

Social Housing – North East & Yorkshire

Social Housing – North West

Social Housing – Northern Ireland

Social Housing – Scotland

Social Housing – South West

Social Housing – Thames Valley

Social Housing – The South

Social Housing – Wales

Social Housing – West Midlands

Social Housing: Finance – UK wide

Social Housing: Tenants – UK wide

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 either February or April. The full list of these dates will be made available later in the year. We will try where possible to not change it from last year. 

Any firm 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 client 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, Private Equity 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.