Bar Council 2025 Recap

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Pump Court Chambers - family finance (9 January 2026)

£ N/A | Family Finance | London, Winchester or Canterbury | start date ASAP

Pump Court Chambers - employment (9 January 2026)

£ N/A | Employment | London, Hampshire, Wiltshire or Kent | start date ASAP

Pump Court Chambers - civil (9 January 2026)

£ N/A | Civil | London, Winchester, Swindon or Canterbury | start date ASAP

Pump Court Chambers - children (9 January 2026)

£ N/A | Children | London, Winchester, Swindon or Canterbury | start date ASAP

Making work pay: why it’s important to monitor earnings by sex at the self-employed Bar

An exploration of how and why the Bar Council has used earnings data over the past decade to support the self-employed Bar

System overload - a report on family legal aid

Our report into family legal aid, examining the changing conditions of publicly funded work for family legal aid barristers

Many would leave family legal aid ‘in a heartbeat’ – new Bar Council report

Researchers spoke to 100 family barristers and found that many want to leave publicly funded family work as fees are worth about half their 1996 value.