This page is for members of the public searching for lawyers.

This search is purely a web-based service. If you have a query, please help us to keep our overheads down by first reading this page and viewing our Frequently Asked Questions, where you may find the answer. If you do not find the answer to your query, please email us: BLDAdmin@onlineBLD.com.

To carry out a general search, either by location and/or the area of Law on which you need advice, click "FIND A LAWYER", which is shaded in green and is at the top right hand corner of the site. Then click "Find".

Please note that if your search returns a nil result, the organisation or lawyer is yet to be listed.  Please also note that some of the lawyers listed are what are called in-house lawyers, employed as the organisations' lawyers to advise them only. Examples are local authority lawyers and lawyers employed by corporations.

It is important to be aware that where your search result returns an individual barrister or barristers’ chambers, you can normally instruct them only under Professional Client Access, through a solicitor or legal advice centre, or if you have Licensed Access. However, in certain limited matters, such as immigration and asylum and family and criminal proceedings (where proceedings have already started), you may instruct directly. For further information about this issue, please see the Bar Council's website further on Public Access Information for Lay Clients and view the Public Access Directory.