Month: September 2022

Our first Board meeting after the summer break was a valuable opportunity to take stock and consider the progress being made to address the challenges set out in the Reshaping Legal Services strategy and the areas we want to focus our attention on in 2023/24. We held a strategy session in which we considered a…

Read Chair’s blog – 13 September 2022

At the LSB we have started qualitative research into legal professionals’ lived experiences of counter-inclusive practices. This is with the aim of informing future LSB research and policy activity on equality, diversity and inclusion. One of our statutory regulatory objectives is to encourage an independent, strong, diverse and effective legal profession. This research will help…

Read Share your experiences of barriers to getting in and getting on as a legal professional: LSB research into experiences of diversity and inclusion

The Legal Services Board (LSB) today announced that Elisabeth Davies has been re-appointed as Chair of the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) for a second term of office. She will serve three years from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2026. Dr Helen Phillips, Chair of the Legal Services Board, said: ‘I am confident that…

Read LSB reappoints Elisabeth Davies for second term as Chair of the Office for Legal Complaints