About:
The Bar is a high performance and highly pressured profession. A barrister’s resilience
and wellbeing lie at the heart of successful practice. The Wellbeing at the Bar Working
Group led by Bar Council has now championed wellbeing within the profession for
the last 6 years.
The Bar Council have a wellbeing hub known as Wellbeing at the Bar. This website has lots of useful information and resources as well as initiatives that you can get involved in including:
- case studies demonstrating steps and ideas for chambers and others to support wellbeing;
- advice and guidance on supporting colleagues (for barristers) and on supporting members and staff/ responsible for introducing a wellbeing strategy (for chambers)
- Assistance Programme for the Bar – a 24/7 professional helpline, providing triage and counselling when required free of charge for self-employed barristers and pupils
- Certificates of Recognition for Chambers and other Bar based stakeholders.
- Mental Health Training for the Bar in partnership with Wellness for Law ensuring members of the Bar have the knowledge to assist others.
Find out more information here.
Further Reading:
- Barristers’ Working Lives/Wellbeing Research 2021. Read the report and findings here.
