The Legal Services Board (LSB) is today (18 November) publishing detailed proposals for reforming the delivery of legal services in England and Wales.

The publication is a major milestone in the process of reforming legal services regulation that began with the Legal Services Act 2007.


Chairman of the Legal Services Board David Edmonds said:

This is the next stage of a process to make legal services more accessible.

Many lawyers are already delivering their services in increasingly innovative ways. But they are operating in ways which mean that they do not have the organisational freedom available to other businesses.

When in place, the new proposals will enshrine and reinforce the essential protections that consumers - and citizens - require. Access to justice and the protection that society as whole has through the maintenance of the rule of law must not be put at risk. The provision of legal services in England and Wales must meet the legitimate demands of the society it...