High Court gives green light to QASA judicial review – Legal Futures

“Criminal barristers were yesterday given permission to pursue their judicial review against the Legal Services Board over the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA).”

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Legal Futures, 8th October 2013

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Legal Services Board clarifies position on special bodies and ABS – Legal Services Board

“Legal Services Board clarifies its stance on licensing special bodies as alternative business structures (ABS).”

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Legal Services Board, 26th September 2013

Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk/

Bar Council calls for new approach to regulation publishing alternative model – The Bar Council

Posted September 17th, 2013 in barristers, legal profession, legal services, Legal Services Board, news by sally

“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has today responded to the Ministry of Justice’s call for evidence on the legal services statutory framework and called for a new approach to regulation, rejecting the current arrangements and the call for a single, ‘super regulator’. It proposes a new model which would replace the Legal Services Board (LSB) with a College of Regulators and re-balance regulation of the profession.”

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The Bar Council, 17th September 2013

Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk

LSB responds to MoJ review of legal services regulations with a blueprint for deregulation – Legal Services Board

Posted September 11th, 2013 in legal services, Legal Services Board, press releases, regulations by tracey

“LSB responds to MoJ review of legal services regulations with a blueprint for deregulation.”

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Legal Services Board, 10th September 2013

Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk

Criminal barristers seek judicial review of LSB over QASA – Legal Futures

Posted September 10th, 2013 in barristers, judicial review, Legal Services Board, news, quality assurance by tracey

“A long-awaited judicial review of the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) has been launched by criminal law barristers against the Legal Services Board (LSB).”

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Legal Futures, 9th September 2013

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Tear up Legal Services Act and start again, says LSB – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted September 10th, 2013 in legal profession, legal services, Legal Services Board, legislation, news by tracey

“The Legal Services Board wants to set in motion plans for a single, independent regulator that will cover the entire legal profession.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 10th September 2013

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

SRA and Legal Services Board tussle over ABS application process – Legal Futures

“The Legal Services Board (LSB) has been critical of the length of the time the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has taken to approve alternative business structures (ABSs), it has emerged.”

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Legal Futures, 20th June 2013

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Bar Council faces probe over cab rank ‘interference’ – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted June 7th, 2013 in barristers, codes of practice, Legal Services Board, news by tracey

“The Legal Services Board is to formally investigate whether the Bar Council breached rules to interfere in a controversial decision affecting the cab rank rule.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 5th June 2013

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘No limits’ to regulation review – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted June 5th, 2013 in barristers, legal services, Legal Services Board, news, solicitors by sally

“The Ministry of Justice has said there will be no limits to a far-reaching review of the regulation of legal services.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 5th June 2013

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Legal Services Board pledges to work better with regulators – Legal Week

Posted April 12th, 2013 in complaints, consumer protection, Legal Services Board, news by sally

“The Legal Services Board (LSB) has restated its intention to work better with industry regulators following a series of criticisms by bodies including the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Bar Standards Board (BSB).”

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Legal Week, 12th April 2013

Source: www.legalweek.com

Public access rules approved by LSB – Bar Standards Board

Posted April 2nd, 2013 in barristers, civil justice, Legal Services Board, news by sally

“The Legal Services Board (LSB) has today approved the removal of two rules around public access work that will promote greater access to justice. At the same time the BSB is strengthening the training that all public access barristers are required to undertake.”

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Bar Standards Board, 28th March 2013

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

Fresh cab-rank rule row as LSB approves public access reforms – Legal Futures

“The Legal Services Board (LSB) has criticised the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) failure to apply the cab-rank rule to public access work and said this omission will reduce the impact of rule changes that widen the scope for barristers dealing directly with clients.”

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Legal Futures, 2nd April 2013

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

Legal Services Board draft business plan response – Bar Standards Board

Posted March 11th, 2013 in barristers, consultations, Legal Services Board, news, solicitors by sally

“The Bar Standards Board today responded to the draft Legal Services Board business plan 2013-14.”

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Bar Standards Board, 8th March 2013

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

Bar calls on the LSB to tighten its belt – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted March 5th, 2013 in barristers, budgets, Legal Services Board, news by sally

“The Bar Council has publicly attacked the Legal Services Board for appearing immune from financial pressures affecting the legal profession and government departments.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 4th March 2013

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

LSB recommends regulation of will-writing activities – Legal Services Board

Posted February 15th, 2013 in consumer protection, legal services, Legal Services Board, news, wills by sally

“The Legal Services Board is today [13 February] recommending to the Lord Chancellor that will writing activities should be made subject to regulation, so that the significant risks consumers currently face when using these critical services is reduced.”

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Legal Services Board, 13th February 2013

Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk

Setting the matter straight – The Bar Council

“The merits of joining forces with the Law Society and CILEx; the need to help facilitate the transition to the new world, even if its flaws are readily apparent; the Bar as guardians of the Rule of Law; and a fond farewell.”

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The Bar Council, December 2012

Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk

Simplify complaints procedures, OFT tells profession – Law Society’s Gazette

“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has urged the legal profession to simplify its complaints procedures, following the publication of research showing that only one in eight dissatisfied customers goes on to make a formal complaint.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 28th January 2013

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

The Cab Rank Rule: Its Meaning and Purpose in the New Legal Services Market – Legal Services Board

Posted January 22nd, 2013 in barristers, Legal Services Board, news, reports by sally

“In May 2012 the LSB commissioned Prof. John Flood (University of Westminster) and Prof. Morton Hvvid (University of East Anglia) to carry out a literature review analysing the impact on the market of paragraphs 601-610 of the of the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) code, otherwise known as the ‘cab rank rule’. The LSB published The Cab Rank Rule: Its Meaning and Purpose in the New Legal Services Market on 22 January 2013.”

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Legal Services Board, 22nd January 2013

Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk

LSB responds to OFT report which outlines the changes to the regulation of legal services brought about by the Legal Services Act 2007 – Legal Services Board

Posted January 18th, 2013 in legal ombudsman, legal services, Legal Services Board, press releases by tracey

“LSB responds to OFT report which outlines the changes to the regulation of legal services brought about by the Legal Services Act 2007.”

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Legal Services Board, 18th January 2013

Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk

LSB’s regulatory assessments: Positive signs, but much further to go – Legal Services Board

Posted December 13th, 2012 in legal profession, Legal Services Board, news, reports by sally

“The Legal Services Board is today publishing its first assessments of the performance of
regulators in the legal services sector. These are issued alongside a consultation on the
LSB’s draft Business Plan for 2013/14. Together these documents make clear the importance,
the LSB attaches to improving regulatory performance in the coming year.”

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Legal Services Board, 12th December 2012

Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk