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Consultations & responses

Get involved in our public consultations, read our responses to other consultations.

Transferring Lawyer applications

This page includes information on applying to transfer to the Bar for qualified lawyers and other qualified legal professionals, key documents required in support of an application, and prioritisation requests.

Barristers with interim suspensions or interim conditions

In some cases, we can suspend or place conditions on a barrister’s Practising Certificate while they are waiting for their case to be heard by a Disciplinary Tribunal. This is known as an interim suspension. 

Board meetings

On this page, you can find information about our Board meetings including the dates and times of future meetings and the Board papers and minutes from past meetings.

Barrister training: waivers & exemptions

Find out how to apply for waivers and exemptions from the various components of Bar training.

Pupillage / work-based learning component - Professional Ethics Exam

On this webpage, you can learn more about the Professional Ethics assessment during the pupillage component of Bar training.

Our monthly Regulatory Updates

Read our latest Regulatory Update for the Bar and access previous months' Updates too.

Chair's Report for Professional Ethics assessment during pupillage

On this webpage you can download the chair's report for the Professional Ethics assessment during pupillage

List of licences for instructing barristers

This is where you can find organisations and individuals that can instruct barristers via the Licensed Access scheme.

Authorisations Team Service Update

This page is updated monthly (or more frequently) to reflect changes to our service, including the volume of work being completed by the team.

Pupillage / work-based learning component of Bar training

This page gives an overview of pupillage, which is the work-based learning component of training to become a barrister.

Conducting litigation: Guidance and applications

From this page, you can download a copy of the Conducting Litigation Guidelines and the application form. To find out more about conducting litigation and to access our guidance for barristers authorised to conduct it, visit our Code Guidance page.

Anti-money laundering & counter-terrorist financing

Information for barristers, chambers and BSB entities about the anti-money laundering requirements.

The BSB Handbook

The BSB Handbook contains the rules about how barristers must behave and work. It also contains the Code of Conduct for barristers.

Money laundering risk assessment

What to think about when carrying out a risk assessment for money laundering and terrorist financing.

Register of BSB entities

From this page, you can download a register of the specialist legal services businesses which we regulate.

Sanctions

Information for barristers, chambers and BSB entities about compliance with sanctions obligations

Annual Reports, Enforcement Reports and Regulatory Decisions Reports

This page contains an archive of all our past Annual Reports, our Regulatory Decisions Reports, our past annual Enforcement Reports and other corporate publications.

Pupillage forms

From this page, you can download a copy of the forms and guidance relating to registration of a pupillage, satisfactory completion of a pupillage, and notification of material changes to a pupillage.