LSB directs the exemption from the requirement for LSB approval of alterations made by the BSB as a consequence of changes to the BSB’s Bar Qualification Rules.
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has published an enforcement report which sets out the findings of an end to end review of the BSB and the SRA’s enforcement processes and articulates the LSB’s future strategic priorities on regulatory enforcement. Through its end to end review the LSB obtained assurance that the BSB and SRA met…
Read more - LSB welcomes SRA and BSB commitments to ongoing improvement on enforcement
LSB directs the exemption from the requirement for LSB approval of alterations made by the ICAEW to its disciplinary bye-laws
The Legal Services Board (LSB) today announces the appointment of David Abbott, Paul Crook, Owen Derbyshire and Liz Owen to the Legal Services Consumer Panel (the Consumer Panel). Liz Owen will take up appointment from 1 April 2019 for an initial four-year term; David Abbott and Owen Derbyshire will take up appointment from 1 April…
Read more - LSB confirms appointment of four new members of the Legal Services Consumer Panel
The Legal Services Board has granted an application from the Bar Standards Board for the approval of amendments to its Part 4 Qualification Rules
LSB directs the exemption from the requirement for LSB approval of alterations to approved regulators’ regulations that may be required if there is a no deal exit from the European Union.
The Legal Services Board (LSB) today announced that its Chief Executive, Neil Buckley, will be stepping down later this year. Neil will stay in post until late summer or until a successor has been appointed. The Board will start the process of recruiting his successor immediately. Announcing his departure, Neil Buckley said: “It has been…
Read more - Neil Buckley to step down as LSB Chief Executive
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has accepted The Law Society’s (TLS’s) report in response to the undertakings given by TLS following the LSB’s Investigation into the Law Society’s oversight and monitoring arrangements for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, published on 31 May 2018. The LSB agrees that the undertakings have been fulfilled and this formally closes…
The LSB approves the 2019 PCF application made by the Bar Council under section 51 of the Legal Services Act 2007
Read more - [Decision notice] Bar Council Practising Fee application
The Legal Services Board (LSB), publishes today a summary report on the legal service regulators’ (regulators) progress against the four diversity outcomes introduced by the LSB in February 2017. The framework requires the regulators to continue to gather data to understand the diversity profile of their regulated communities combined with using that data: to inform…
Read more - LSB publishes assessment of regulators progress on diversity
The Legal Services Board (LSB) today announces the appointment of Rod Bulmer and Shrinivas Honap ACA as new lay members of the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC). These appointments have been made by the Legal Services Board in accordance with the Legal Services Act 2007. Commenting on the appointment, Dr Helen Phillips said: “I am delighted to congratulate Rod and Shrinivas on…
Read more - LSB announces new appointments to the Office for Legal Complaints
The Legal Services Board (LSB) publishes today its first assessment of the performance of the legal services regulatory bodies following the introduction of the new performance framework in December 2017. The regulators have met the minimum required level of performance against the majority of the outcomes in our regulatory performance framework. Where the outcomes are not yet…
Read more - Legal Services Board publishes its 2019 regulatory performance report
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