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Wales engagement event: 25 April 2022

On Monday 25 April 2022 The Legal Services Board hosted a virtual event for legal practitioners, academics and consumer advice groups in Wales. The discussion event explored the themes of its consumer-focused strategy for the sector, Reshaping Legal Services, one year after publication. Please see the notes from the event: LSB Wales engagement event notes April…

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New LSB research reinforces need to put consumers at the centre of financial protection arrangements

New research commissioned by the Legal Services Board (LSB) highlights the need to ensure legal services consumers understand the arrangements in place to protect them in the event of professional negligence. Legal services providers are required to take out Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) to ensure consumers are protected from harm should something go wrong, causing…

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

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has published a statutory statement of policy on empowering consumers to better access information about the service and quality of legal services providers. Developed following a consultation and engagement with the legal services regulators and others across the sector, the statement outlines how the regulators should ensure that people and…

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For the public, with the professions: LSB consults on a new framework for effective regulation in the legal services sector

Today, the Legal Services Board (LSB) launched a public consultation on a new approach to regulatory performance. The new system places greater emphasis on leadership, delivering the regulatory objectives and running effective operations. While it sets out the LSB’s expectations more clearly than ever before, it also provides much greater freedom to regulators to decide…

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LSB publishes plan to maintain progress on consumer-focused strategy in 2022/23

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has published its business plan for 2022/23. It focuses on strengthening progress in overcoming the nine challenges facing the sector identified in the ‘Reshaping Legal Services’ strategy and continuing to discharge its statutory functions. Activities include completing the review of the regulatory performance framework to ensure it is effective and…

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Chair’s blog – 22 March 2022

We met in person on 22 March for our third Board meeting of 2022 and dealt with a number of items that marked the culmination of some important workstreams. We also signed off our business plan for 2022/23 and the Office for Legal Complaints budget application for 2022/23. LSB Business plan 2022/23: maintaining progress against…

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Reshaping legal services, one year on – a Welsh discussion event, 25 April 2022

Following our virtual event last year, where we discussed the launch of our consumer-focused sector-wide strategy, the Legal Services Board is hosting an online event to reflect on the progress made so far and focus on what needs to be done to maintain momentum and drive change that makes a difference for people who need…

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