We have developed a Member Prospectus which outlines the benefits and costs associated with being a member of SJB. Download your copy here.

How do I find out more?

We are always keen to speak to barristers of exceptional quality who would like to benefit from working with our first rate team. We are currently inviting applications for tenancy. Any discussion will be confidential.

We offer a supportive environment from which you will grow your practice. We are able to provide opportunities and clerking expertise in a diverse range of practice areas across each of our Chambers and we have a junior tenant mentoring scheme which provides dedicated senior members of chambers who can be called upon for guidance.

Our member support offering includes a Bar Council approved wellbeing provision (including counselling, mental health support, wellbeing events and mentors), detailed equality, anti-racism and menopause policies and a clear code of conduct to ensure members are supported and able to maximise their potential.

If you want to join a chambers that offers you a better quality of work or a practice that is managed and clerked effectively and in your best interests and those of your clients, please contact our Chief Executive, Chris Ronan (chris.ronan@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk), to find out what St John’s Buildings can do for you and your practice.

Alternatively, please send applications, in the strictest confidence, to Chris Ronan, at the following address:

St John’s Buildings
24a – 26 St John Street
Manchester
M3 4DJ

Or phone 0161 214 1500 for a chat about our vision and your future.

Due to an increase in Crown Court and private Magistrates Courts work, St Johns Buildings Criminal and Regulatory Group particularly welcome applications for junior tenants of under five years’ call to be based in each of our sites at Manchester, Liverpool and Chester.