‘Access to justice: the view from the Bar’ report found that only one in five (22%) barristers think people have an acceptable level of access to justice and 15% said they “don’t know”.
The report was based on 3,669 barristers' answers to a question on access to justice in the Bar Council's biannual survey of the profession, Barristers' Working Lives, conducted in 2025.
Topics mentioned by the 2,477 barristers who gave a written response in percentages:
- 62% mentioned court delays
- 55% mentioned legal aid/funding
- 34% mentioned costs/affordability
- 24% mentioned court infrastructure
