Month: September 2021


LSB publishes Faculty Office governance report following cooperative review

Today, the Legal Services Board (LSB) published the findings of its review of the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury under the Well-led standard of the LSB’s regulatory performance assessment framework. The Master of the Faculties, acting through the Faculty Office, regulates the notarial profession in England and Wales.  The LSB found that the Faculty Office follows governance procedures that…

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Chair’s Blog – September 2021

Our first Board meeting following the summer break (21 September 2021) gave us an opportunity to take a step back and reflect on some of the current issues facing the legal services sector and consider the progress being made to deliver the ambitions set out in Reshaping Legal Services – our strategy for the sector….

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LSB sets clear expectations for regulators to improve consumer information, promote rights, and drive choice in the legal services market

Today, the Legal Services Board (LSB) launched a consultation on a draft statutory statement of policy on empowering consumers. Developed following engagement with the legal services regulators and others across the sector, it outlines how the regulators should ensure that people and small businesses who need legal advice have the information they need to shop…

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