We are delighted to announce that 11KBW and our members are highly ranked in the Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2026. This year members have received 15 new rankings and 12 promotions across all of our practice areas.
We have again retained our Top Tier set rankings for:
Employment
- ‘11KBW are the leading employment set in my view. Brilliant barristers, brilliant clerks, brilliant service.’
- ‘11KBW are a first class set with a enviable stock of KC’s through to ranks of incredibly clever juniors.’
Data Protection
- ‘11KBW is a top-tier set full of data protection specialists who are at the very top of their game. They have an extremely impressive breadth and depth of data protection expertise.’
- ‘11KBW is strong in this field’
- ‘They are very good in the information and data space.’
Education
- ‘11KBW are our ‘go-to’ set for Education law. They have a great deal of strength in depth across all of the major sub-divisions including public law, regulatory, equality and human rights, and data protection.’
- ‘11KBW are our ‘go-to’ set for Education law. They have a great deal of strength in depth across all of the major sub-divisions including public law, regulatory, equality and human rights, and data protection.’
Public Procurement
- ‘11KBW are a leading procurement set for public procurement law’
- ‘11KBW are the premier set for public procurement litigation with a strong roster of silks and juniors all whom are good to work with’
In addition to our set rankings for:
Administrative Law and Human Rights
- ‘An excellent chambers, always providing high quality work; they offer a diverse range of counsel who have different skill sets and specialisms who can generally assist with most, if not all, public law issues. Their knowledge and specialism is second to none and they can always be relied upon. Cannot recommend enough.’
- ‘Great set of barristers; real depth of experience and expertise’
Defamation and Privacy
- ’11KBW is my “go-to” chambers for defamation and data privacy work.’
- ’11KBW is top when it comes to information law.’
- ‘A well-run set, particularly strong on information law.’
Our clerking team received consistently high praise across our practice areas:
- ‘The clerks are the best out there. Particularly Martin Pownall and Tori Eastwick, they definitely add to why 11KBW are the best employment set.’
- ‘The clerk team led by Mark Dann is exceptional.’
- ‘The clerks are very responsive. Michael Smith in particular is extremely supportive.’
- ‘Excellent clerks, 11KBW are the leaders in their field’
- ‘The service from the clerks is always consistently excellent’
- ‘The clerking team are excellent. They are very quick to respond and offer valuable insights into suitability of counsel for specific procurement instructions. Thomas Belcher and Michael Smith are go-to choices.’
- ‘The clerks are knowledgeable of their barristers and work levels; they will return calls quickly when obtaining information about availability.’
- ‘Michael Smith and Mark Dann are both fantastic. They are conscientious and personable.’
- Michael Smith provides an efficient service: securing availability and input on short notice.’
- ‘11 KBW is one of the top public law and employment sets. Mark Dann stands out in the clerking team.’
- ‘The clerks work seamlessly as partners in developing our business and moving our cases through the system. Mark Dann always has time for every member of our team.’
Our full rankings can be found here.
We would like to thank our clients who took the time to provide feedback to the Legal 500 research team.
