# Bratby Law - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://bratby.law/ - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) A one-lawyer London law firm, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, where Robert Bratby gives data-protection and AI-governance advice. ## Bratby Law scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### Help when things go wrong: 2/5 Firm advertises enforcement defence and breach response as service lines, but no independently verifiable case outcome, ICO matter, or incident result is published anywhere found. ### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 4/5 SRA-authorised since 2020 (no. 801942); Chambers UK Band 2 for Telecoms (2026); Legal 500 Leading Partner listing on firm's own site. ### What it publishes about fees: 4/5 Firm's own site states fixed-or-capped pricing agreed in writing before work begins, with scope changes discussed before extra cost. ### Knowledge of your sector: 5/5 Dedicated 8-line data-protection practice page, named specialist partner, and a real named-client case study covering AI-product data protection. ### Independence from what it sells: 5/5 Independent SRA-regulated law firm selling legal advice directly; no compliance software product, tool, or audit-to-sale funnel identified. ### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 3/5 As a solicitor the named partner bears personal professional liability under SRA rules, but no published PII cover details were found to verify the level of financial backing. ## Sources for Bratby Law Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - Bratby Law Ltd is an active UK private limited company (SIC 69102, solicitors), incorporated on 30 March 2020, registered office 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF. - Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12539220 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Bratby Law Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority as a licensed body for all legal services, including reserved legal activities. - Source: https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/register/organisation/?sraNumber=801942 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Companies House officer and PSC filings show Robert Benjamin Crandon Bratby as the sole active director and sole person with significant control; a second director, Lisa Crandon Bratby, resigned on 2 August 2025. - Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12539220/officers - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Chambers UK 2026 ranks Robert Bratby Band 2 for Telecommunications, with editorial commentary citing his data-protection knowledge in the telecoms sector. - Source: https://chambers.com/lawyer/robert-bratby-uk-1:107295 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - The firm publishes a dedicated data-protection practice-area page listing UK GDPR compliance, DPIAs, data governance/transfers, AI and automated decision-making, breach response/ICO notification, and PECR/ePrivacy as service lines. - Source: https://bratby.law/practice-areas/data-protection/ - Checked: 2026-09-19 - The firm states its direct-advice fee model is fixed or capped and agreed in writing before work begins, with scope changes discussed before extra cost is incurred. - Source: https://bratby.law/how-we-work/direct-legal-advice/ - Checked: 2026-09-19 - A fractional-general-counsel case study on the firm's own site describes its TelXL Limited engagement as covering "data protection for AI-enabled products including conversation intelligence and sentiment analysis". - Source: https://bratby.law/how-we-work/fractional-general-counsel/ - Checked: 2026-09-19 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Not published - Indemnity cover: Not published - Credentials: Published - Independent accreditation: Not published - Client results: Published - How it uses AI: Not published ## Strengths - SRA-authorised licensed body (no. 801942) since September 2020, entitled to carry out all reserved legal activities. - Named partner Rob Bratby holds a current Chambers UK Band 2 ranking for Telecommunications (2026), with editorial commentary specifically noting data-protection knowledge. - Dedicated, detailed data-protection practice page (8 service lines) plus a named, real client case study (TelXL) explicitly covering data protection for AI-enabled products. - Publishes an explicit fee-transparency commitment: fixed or capped pricing agreed in writing before work begins. ## Things to check Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - Bratby Law is a single-practitioner operation: Companies House shows Robert Bratby as the sole active director and sole person with significant control, and the firm's own site states "In each case a partner does the work; nothing is delegated," meaning no bench depth or named cover if he is unavailable. - Basis: Companies House officers/PSC filing (sole director/PSC) plus the firm's own about-page statement that work is never delegated. - No professional indemnity insurance details (insurer, level or type of cover) are published on the firm's website, in its SRA register entry, or in its Companies House filings, despite the firm being an SRA-regulated licensed body. - Basis: Reviewed bratby.law (about, how-we-work, direct-legal-advice pages), the SRA register entry, and Companies House filing history; none disclose PII cover specifics. ## Where this firm appears - [After a data breach: what UK law asks of you](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/post-breach) - [Does the EU AI Act apply to a UK firm?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed) - [Your sector adds its own rules to UK data protection law](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/sector-regulated) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.