About Bar Mutual

Bar Mutual provides professional indemnity insurance to self-employed barristers in England & Wales and BSB-authorised or licensed entities.  All self-employed barristers are required by the Bar Standards Board to take out professional indemnity insurance with Bar Mutual. 

Bar Mutual provides comprehensive professional indemnity insurance cover and an excellent claims handling service. 

Bar Mutual is owned and controlled by its Members, whose collective interests are paramount.

Control of Bar Mutual’s affairs rests with its Board of Directors, the majority of which is non-executive self-employed barristers. The Board is responsible for setting Bar Mutual’s strategies and policies and overseeing the performance of the Managers.

Bar Mutual’s executive functions are outsourced to Thomas Miller Professional Indemnity Limited, a subsidiary company of Thomas Miller Holdings Ltd.