Month: November 2025

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has shared new proposals that aim to support equality and diversity in the legal profession and is inviting feedback from across the sector.  Despite some progress, the legal profession does not represent the people it serves. Many groups still face barriers to entering the profession and developing their careers in legal services. Women, minoritised ethnic groups and disabled people, for example, remain significantly underrepresented at senior levels across parts of the…

Read LSB publishes plans to tackle barriers to a more diverse legal services profession

The Legal Services Board (LSB) welcomes the publication of the House of Lords Constitution Committee’s report on the rule of law in the UK.  We are pleased that the Committee has drawn on the evidence we submitted, including material from our Professional Ethics and Rule of Law (PERL) programme. The Committee’s highlighting of this evidence…

Read LSB statement on the House of Lords Constitution Committee’s report on the rule of law 

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved an application from CILEx Regulation Limited (CRL) to allow legal executives to obtain standalone litigation practice rights. This decision is an important step towards ensuring that legal professionals impacted by the Mazur judgment can obtain the relevant authorisation practice rights in a timely manner. It will also allow others…

Read CILEx Regulation Limited’s application for stand-alone litigation rights