The Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2025

The Legal 500 UK Bar guide 2025 was launched and, Monckton Chambers secured a record number of rankings totalling 152. This includes 64 individual barristers from Monckton listed across 28 practice areas, 18 new entries into the tables this year, 21 improved rankings and 3 members mentioned in the ‘rising star’ categories. Congratulations to all members listed.

Monckton Chambers has been recommended, as a Top-Tier set in the following five practice areas:

• Competition: ‘Monckton has consistently been a top flight set in competition law matters.’ “They remain the go-to chambers for leading competition barristers across the call, highly in demand in this space.’
• EU relations – EU law: ‘Monckton have many star names and a growing mix of capable juniors and senior counsel.’ ‘A wide array of barristers with excellent knowledge of EU law’.
• Telecoms regulation: ‘Monckton continues to be a go-to set for the competition side of telecommunications disputes and has a number of strong juniors in the pipeline.’
• Public procurement: ‘Monckton are a very strong set for public procurement cases, with particular strength in the number of KCs and senior juniors.’  ‘The best set by far for public procurement’.
• Tax: VAT and excise: ‘The group has experience in a range of sector-specific matters, including cryptocurrency, pension plans, and the transfer of assets abroad.’

The Set has also been ranked in a further three areas:

• Administrative law and human rights: ‘‘team is well versed in representing claimants and defendants in complex cases across the public law arena, with particular focus on commercial and regulatory judicial reviews.’
• Data protection: ‘has a well-established reputation.’
• Sport: ‘specialising in the overlap between sports law and all aspects of commercial EU and competition law, Monckton Chambers has experience in sporting disputes before a range of fora.’

Members were also recognised as ‘Leading Individuals’ in:

• Aviation & travel
• Court of Protection: Health and welfare
• Commercial Litigation
• Commercial (Middle East: The English Bar)
• Commodities
• Education
• Employment
• Energy
• Fraud: civil
• Group Litigation
• Immigration (including business immigration)
• International arbitration: arbitrators
• International arbitration: counsel
• International Human Rights and criminal law
• Insolvency
• Insurance and reinsurance
• Professional Negligence
• Shipping
• Social housing
• The English Bar Offshore

We would like to thank our clients and colleagues as ever for their kind feedback as part of this process. You can view the full list of  Monckton Chambers’ rankings here.