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Bar Conference 2025
Lanyard sponsor
Now in our 16th year of successful collaboration with the Bar, GRL Legal continues to play a key role in providing tailored recruitment and consultancy services. We have helped place numerous high-profile leaders and senior managers within Barristers’ Chambers, boutique law firms, and legal organisations across the UK.
With over 100 years of combined leadership experience in some of the country’s leading Chambers, our senior consultants have an in-depth understanding of the Bar’s unique dynamics. They excel in clear, effective communication and have a strong track record of delivering results. We are proud to sponsor the Bar Conference for the second consecutive year.
Bag sponsor
Vector Professions Finance is a well-established company whose principal activity is the provision of Aged Debt Funding Services to the Bar.
Vector offer a fast track online application and only usually require electronic printouts from the clerks system of your gross receipts for the last 12 months to date and your aged debt together with application and personal worth forms that can be completed online on our website
Popular uses of our facility include: tax bill funding, overdraft clearance/reduction, junior to silk transition, KC application fees, debt consolidation, chambers expenses, LAA funding, pension top ups, chambers freehold acquisition, and school fees.
Exhibitors
The Access to Justice Foundation is a fundraising and grant making organisation that increases the provision of free legal advice for marginalised communities, and people most in need. We are a charity created by the legal profession. The Bar Council, alongside other professional bodies of the legal profession, are our founding members.
The Foundation had £28.9 million committed to grant funding 119 charities across the UK at the end of 2024. We raise funds through Pro Bono Costs Orders, residual client balances, and other donations and sponsorship.
We can help you achieve your goal to increase access to justice.
Advocate is the Bar’s national pro bono charity. We match members of the public who need free legal help with barristers who are willing to donate their time and expertise for those who are unable to obtain legal aid and cannot afford to pay. We cover all areas of law, and work in all courts and tribunals nationwide. Over 4,600 barristers, from pupils all the way to KCs, have signed up to volunteer to work on pro bono cases with Advocate. Barristers can sign up after their second six and operate under Advocate’s direct access licence.
Fleet Street Wealth is a chartered, independent fee based firm of financial advisers and wealth managers based in Holborn. We have been looking after the affairs of barristers, judges, clerks, chambers and a number of the Bar's charities for over 27 years. We advise on pensions, savings and investments, offshore savings, VCTs, EIS, estate planning and corporate/trust investing. We are recommended by accounting firms such as Silver Levene, mortgage firms and are a Bar Council partner. Unusually, we work on set initial fees and capped charges and offer a free full independent financial review for prospective clients.
The Free Representation Unit is a pro bono legal charity. We provide one of the few opportunities to deliver advocacy in real legal cases prior to qualification.
FRU volunteers represent clients in social security, employment and criminal injuries compensation appeal tribunals. Our volunteers are trained and supported by a team of paid legal officers to take ownership of all aspects of case preparation and advocacy at the tribunal hearing. FRU volunteers gain experience in case strategy, client care, legal research, drafting of witness statements, schedules of loss and submissions, case file preparation, settlement negotiation and oral advocacy.
The Judicial Appointments Commission of England and Wales (JAC) was established in 2006 with a mandate to ensure judicial appointments are independent, transparent, and fair. The JAC’s Targeted Outreach (TO) programme (co-badged with the Judiciary) helps candidates from the four JAC target groups (women, ethnic minority candidates, disabled candidates, and solicitor candidates) prepare for the judicial selection process. The TO programme offers short-term, ad-hoc support centred around the judicial application process. Following acceptance onto the programme, candidates may receive guidance from a member of the judiciary through the Judicial Guide scheme.
Targeted Outreach programme FAQs
Place Campbell’s relationship with the Bar goes back 60 years and we now act for over 2,000 barristers and 50 chambers. Our depth of experience makes us the preeminent barrister-specialist firm of Chartered Certified Accountants.
From the newly qualified barrister undertaking pupillage to the KC taking Judicial appointment, we understand the pressures facing members of the Bar so our aim is simple, to make dealing with your financial affairs straightforward and efficient so that you can concentrate on your practice.
Westgate Wealth Management, are a proud Bar Council service partner, since 2018 and have worked with the Bar for nearly a decade. With Louise Crush, Chartered Financial Adviser and non-practising barrister, driving Westgate’s advice and education programme, we are uniquely positioned to understand, support and advise members of the Bar, at all stages of their career, on all areas of financial planning, from: protection, retirement planning, investment planning and inheritance tax planning. Choosing to join FTSE listed company St. James’s Place, provides us with access to a unique investment management approach and advice guarantee,* to provide the highest standard service to our clients.
* St. James’s Place guarantees the suitability of the advice given by members of the St. James’s Place Partnership when recommending any of the wealth management products and services available from companies in the group, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website at www.sjp.co.uk/products.
Westgate Wealth Management Limited is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James's Place Wealth Management plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the group's wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the group's website. The 'St. James's Place Partnership' and the titles 'Partner' and 'Partner Practice' are marketing terms used to describe St. James's Place representatives.
If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at our Bar Conference 2025, please contact the training and events team by email.
