Legal Services Board – Current Awareness

Legal Services Board plots ethics overhaul amid evidence standards are slipping – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted March 7th, 2025 in legal education, legal services, Legal Services Board, news, non-disclosure agreements, professional conduct, public interest, standards by sally

‘Legal education, training and regulation must be strengthened to stem a decline in ethical standards, the Legal Services Board has proposed. The oversight regulator wants to initiate a “significant shift” in how lawyers’ ethics are taught, overseen and supported in workplaces. This fresh approach is on the back of a growing body of “substantial evidence” that lawyers are unaware of their ethical requirements or even actively ignoring them.’

Law Society's Gazette, 6th March 2025

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Legal Services Board has “duty to act” on profession’s diversity – Legal Futures

Posted February 12th, 2025 in diversity, legal profession, Legal Services Board, news by sally

‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) not only has “the right to act” to improve diversity in the legal profession, but is under “a duty to act”, its new chief executive has said.’

Legal Futures, 11th February 2025

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Unapologetic SRA dismisses Axiom Ince report as “opinion” – Legal Futures

Posted November 6th, 2024 in fraud, law firms, Legal Services Board, news, solicitors, Solicitors Regulation Authority by sally

‘The leaders of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) yesterday refused to apologise to the profession about the Axiom Ince collapse as they dismissed the report criticising its actions as just opinion.’

BBC news, 6th November 2024

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Axiom Ince: SRA faces enforcement action by LSB following damning report – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted October 30th, 2024 in compensation, consumer protection, employment, enforcement, fraud, law firms, Legal Services Board, news, Serious Fraud Office, solicitors, Solicitors Regulation Authority by sally

‘The solicitors’ regulator is to face unprecedented enforcement action under the Legal Services Act following the discovery of a catalogue of failures in its handling of the 2023 collapse of law firm Axiom Ince.’

Law Society's Gazette, 29th October 2024

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Axiom Ince: What the independent review recommends – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted October 30th, 2024 in compensation, consumer protection, employment, enforcement, fraud, law firms, Legal Services Board, news, Serious Fraud Office, solicitors, Solicitors Regulation Authority by sally

‘The Carson McDowell review into the regulatory events leading up to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s intervention into Axiom Ince culminates with four pages of recommendations.’

Law Society's Gazette, 29th October 2024

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

“Disruptive action” may be needed to improve diversity, LSB warns – Legal Futures

Posted October 15th, 2024 in barristers, bullying, diversity, equality, harassment, legal profession, Legal Services Board, news by sally

‘Bullying and harassment is not limited to the Bar and “disruptive action” may be needed to create a “fair, healthy, diverse and inclusive legal profession”, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has warned.’

Legal Futures, 15th October 2024

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Regulators “must warn lawyers against taking advantage of LiPs” – Legal Futures

Posted August 21st, 2024 in barristers, charities, legal profession, Legal Services Board, litigants in person, news, solicitors, Solicitors Regulation Authority by sally

‘Legal regulators must warn lawyers that they will face action to stop them unethically taking advantage of vulnerable litigants, a charity has urged.’

Legal Futures, 21st August 2024

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Accusations fly amid “hostility” between LSB and Bar regulator – Legal Futures

Posted July 23rd, 2024 in barristers, legal services, Legal Services Board, news, standards by sally

‘Relations between the Legal Services Board (LSB) and the Bar Standards Board (BSB) are close to breaking point over the speed of reform at the barrister regulator.’

Legal Futures, 23rd July 2024

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Legal Services Act does not appear to provide stable long-term framework for regulation of legal professions: Justice Committee – Local Government Lawyer

Posted April 4th, 2024 in legal profession, legal services, Legal Services Board, news, select committees by sally

‘The Legal Services Act 2007 does not appear to provide a stable long-term framework for the regulation of the legal professions, the Justice Committee has warned.’

Local Government Lawyer, 3rd April 2024

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

Lawyers and the misuse of NDAs – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted March 7th, 2024 in legal profession, Legal Services Board, news, non-disclosure agreements by sally

‘The Legal Services Board has published its report on the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). It focuses on the conduct of lawyers and forms part of the LSB’s Reshaping Legal Services strategy, which centres on the delivery of high-quality legal advice with strong professional ethics.’

Law Society's Gazette, 5th March 2024

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Ministers ask LSB to set out strategy on AI use in legal sector – Legal Futures

Posted February 16th, 2024 in artificial intelligence, government departments, legal profession, legal services, Legal Services Board, news by sally

‘Ministers have asked the Legal Services Board (LSB) to outline how it plans to approach the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the sector by the end of April.’

Legal Futures, 16th February 2024

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

The profession’s ethics are in the spotlight and junior lawyers want change – Legal Futures

Posted December 12th, 2023 in legal profession, Legal Services Board, news, professional conduct, reports by sally

‘A report published earlier this month by the Legal Services Board highlighted the ethical risks faced by today’s lawyers.’

Legal Futures, 12th December 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Consolidation of legal regulators “may be a good thing” – Legal Futures

Posted November 22nd, 2023 in consultations, Law Society, legal profession, legal services, Legal Services Board, news, solicitors, Solicitors Regulation Authority by sally

‘Consolidation of legal regulators “may be a good thing” if designed to achieve “the pulling together of knowledge, lessons, consumer research and engagement”, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has said.’

Legal Futures, 22nd November 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Bar Council: “Hard to fathom” LSB’s criticism of cab-rank rule – Legal Futures

Posted October 18th, 2023 in barristers, Legal Services Board, news by sally

‘The Bar Council has hit back at Legal Services Board (LSB) comments on the cab-rank rule, saying that it is “hard to fathom” why it would be against a rule that supports consumer choice.’

Legal Futures, 18th October 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

“No evidence” that barristers need new AML regime – Legal Futures

Posted October 16th, 2023 in barristers, Legal Services Board, money laundering, news, terrorism by sally

‘There is “absolutely no evidence” that barristers and other advocates need a new anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing regime, their UK representative bodies have argued.’

Legal Futures, 16th October 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

LSB has “no role” in promoting use of technology – Legal Futures

Posted October 4th, 2023 in artificial intelligence, barristers, Legal Services Board, news by sally

‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has “no role” in promoting the use of technology and there are “dangers in using regulatory levers to attempt to do so”, the Bar Council has warned.’

Legal Futures, 4th October 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Weinstein whistleblower attacks Bar Council over NDAs stance – Legal Futures

Posted September 4th, 2023 in barristers, Legal Services Board, news, non-disclosure agreements, whistleblowers by sally

‘The woman who first broke a Harvey Weinstein non-disclosure agreement (NDAs) has strongly criticised the Bar Council for dismissing the growing evidence of NDA abuse.’

Legal Futures, 4th September 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

LSB set to beef up rules on how lawyers handle complaints – Legal Futures

Posted August 29th, 2023 in complaints, legal ombudsman, legal services, Legal Services Board, news by sally

‘Lawyers are facing beefed-up rules on dealing with complaints, and the prospect of how quickly they handle them being made public, under proposals published yesterday.’

Legal Furtures, 25th August 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Solicitors “should get empathy training”, LSB research suggests – Legal Futures

Posted August 2nd, 2023 in complaints, continuing professional development, law firms, Legal Services Board, news, solicitors by sally

‘Solicitors should get training in “soft skills/empathy” as part of their continuing professional development (CPD), research for the Legal Services Board (LSB) has suggested.’

Legal Futures, 2nd August 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

LSB has “no role” in regulating lawful use of NDAs, Bar Council says – Legal Futures

Posted August 1st, 2023 in barristers, Legal Services Board, news, non-disclosure agreements by sally

‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has “no role” in “attempting to control or regulate lawyers involved in assisting clients in the lawful use of NDAs”, the Bar Council has said.’

Legal Futures, 1st August 2023

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

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