1 Apr 2025
This year’s Authorisation to Practise (AtP) process contained a new question, asking about barristers’ involvement in claims management activity.
Following feedback from the Bar Council, the Personal Injuries Bar Association (PIBA) and a number of individual barristers, we recognise that the question’s framing and supporting guidance created confusion as to how respondents should answer. We would like to apologise for any confusion.
We are aware that individual barristers have taken different views on how to answer the question, and so the data will not provide the level or quality of intelligence we hoped to gather.
On that basis we will not be using the data from this question and will delete it once the AtP process is completed, at the end of April. This question will not appear on next year’s AtP.
