The Legal Services Board (LSB) notes the judgment of the Court of Appeal in CILEX’s appeal against the High Court’s decision in Mazur. A spokesperson for the LSB said: “The Legal Services Board welcomes the clarity provided by the Court of Appeal on how the reserved legal activity of conducting litigation under the Legal Services Act should be interpreted and applied in practice. “We will now carefully consider the judgment’s implications…
Legal services regulators must do more to strengthen lawyers’ ethical standards, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has said, setting out new expectations designed to reinforce lawyers’ role in upholding the rule of law. Regulators will need to put “professional ethical duties” at the heart of how lawyers are expected to behave. The LSB has confirmed that where duties conflict, lawyers must prioritise their duties to the court and the rule of law over their duty to…
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Since the Board last met in November, the LSB team has made strong progress across several key areas of our work. Our February meeting therefore covered a wide range of issues that are central to how we make sure that legal services regulation can protect consumers and support the public interest. SRA: public censure and…
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has today issued a formal public censure against the solicitors’ regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). This follows the regulator’s failure to protect consumers affected by the collapse of Sheffield-based law firm SSB Group Limited (SSB). SSB specialised in so-called ‘no win, no fee’ cases – a type of legal…
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