The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bar of England and Wales will be an in-person meeting held at the Bar Council Offices, 289-293 High Holborn at 11.00am on Saturday 13 September 2025. It will follow a meeting of the Bar Council.
The agenda for the AGM will be made available to Subscribers, Circuits, Specialist Bar Associations and the Inns of Court as soon as possible after the closing date for resolutions (Monday 18 August 2025), but not less than seven clear days before the meeting (Friday 5 September 2025). In accordance with Part II, paragraph 16(a) of the Constitution, the Bar Council shall present its annual report and accounts at this meeting.
Regulation 32(c) of Part II of the Constitution of the General Council of the Bar states that the terms of any alteration to the Regulations in the Constitution shall be notified to all Subscribers in the notice convening the General Meeting (whether Annual or Extraordinary) next following the meeting of the Bar Council at which the alteration was made.
In compliance with that undertaking, this notice confirms any changes to the Constitution since the last AGM on 7 September 2024. All changes to the Constitution of the General Council of the Bar must be put to Bar Council members for approval by way of an Extraordinary Resolution. One such resolution for a change to the constitution will be put to the Bar Council at the meeting preceding the AGM and is detailed below.
Those wishing to attend the AGM should contact Justina Naik, Governance and Committees Manager: Governance@barcouncil.org.uk