Contact us

Our office will be closed from 5pm on Friday 20 December and will reopen at 9am on Thursday 2 January. We won’t be answering calls or responding to emails during this time.

Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, your mental health might be affected by the occasion. It's a time of year that often brings extra pressure and it can impact on mental health in lots of different ways. If you need support over the Christmas break:

  • Our assistance programme is a confidential 24/7 service to help with physical, mental, social and financial challenges. The service is on offer to support all self-employed barristers with a practising certificate, pupils, IBC or LPMA members. The phone number is 0800 169 2040. More information is available on our Wellbeing at the Bar website.
  • The mental health charity Mind has collated a very useful list of contact numbers for organisations offering support on a range of issues including mental health, suicide, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Useful contacts for both England and Wales

General enquiries

Call 020 7242 0082 or email [email protected].

Press Office

Call the Press Office on 020 7092 8175 or email [email protected]
Please note: this is just for press enquiries.

Contact a specific Bar Council team

If you know who you wish to contact, see our team pages for contact details. 

Contact Barrister Records - the records office

For any questions regarding your Authorisation to Practise or to update any of your practising details, contact the Barrister Records team via [email protected] or 020 7242 0934. The line is open from 10:00 to 16:00 on Monday to Friday. 

Our helplines and enquiry services

We have dedicated helplines and enquiry services for equality and diversity, ethics, bullying and harassment and pupillage related enquiries, as well as the chambers management enquiry service. Visit the helplines and enquiries services page.

Support

If you need support, our Assistance Programme is open 24/7. Find out about other support available on our Personal support page.

Our address

The Bar Council
289-293 High Holborn
London WC1V 7HZ

DX: 240 LDE

Getting here

The Bar Council's offices are located on High Holborn, a five minute walk from either Holborn or Chancery Lane tube stations.

  • The buses that operate along High Holborn are 8, 25, 242 and 521
  • Other buses around the Holborn area are 17, 45, 46 and 341. All these buses, except the 341, are wheelchair accessible.