Renewing insurance

Renewal 2026/27

Your insurance expires on 31 March 2026.

The quickest and easiest way to renew your insurance is via this link Members’ Portal which has the added advantage of allowing you to pay your premium by debit or credit card (for which no additional charge will be made).

This Members’ Portal will allow Members to renew their insurance.  The platform will give Members access to their insurance documentation (including their policies of insurance) and balances. 

If Members delegate authority to Chambers, the Chambers Administrator for Insurance will be able to see their Members’ insurance details, including past and current policies, gross fee income, levels of cover and premiums paid and due.

We have two guides that will help you renew online, which can be found on the downloads section of our website, “Step by step guide for members to renew online” and “How to delegate access to chambers”. 

As in previous years, all the documents for the renewal are on our website.  This includes the Chair’s Interim Report.

As usual, we would be grateful for your help in ensuring the prompt completion of the renewal process. We strongly recommend that Members renew online, which is the quickest and easiest method of renewing. 

We have removed any hardcopy renewal forms.  The site should be available from the beginning of February 2026.  By using the online renewal site, the premiums can be seen immediately, and debit notes may be printed out.

If you do have any problems with the system, please contact us at info@barmutual.co.uk

Renew online

Guidance on Allocation of LAA Contingency Payments to BMIF’s Areas of Practice in the BMIF Renewal Form.

BMIF is aware that following the cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) in May 2025, the LAA established a contingency payment scheme and that some Members received periodic payments based on their average income.

As the contingency payments are not made against specific cases, most Members cannot now readily allocate their receipts to the relevant BMIF practice area(s) for the purposes of renewing their insurance with BMIF.

Pending confirmation from the LAA on the final payments under the Legal Aid Scheme for the cases in respect of which Members have submitted requests for payments, Members who cannot allocate their receipts between BMIF’s practice areas should allocate receipts from the LAA under the contingency payment scheme to BMIF’s practice areas in the same proportion as their renewal declarations to BMIF for the 2025/26 policy year i.e. mirroring their receipts for the 2024 calendar year.

Once final payments have been made and the position regularised, Members are asked to contact BMIF with a view to confirming or correcting their fee declarations.  This may result in a premium refund to the Member, or a balancing payment being due from the Member for renewal of their 2026/27 policy with BMIF.

Talk to us and find out how we can help.

+44 20 7621 0405 

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