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Legal Services Act 2007 definition

What does Legal Services Act 2007 mean?

This statute sets out the legal framework for the regulation of the legal profession.

It creates the Legal Services Board as overarching regulator, defines its constitution and gives it its regulatory powers; identifies the 'approved regulators' which regulate those authorised to provide legal activities and gives them revised powers; sets up the Office for Legal Complaints and an ombudsman scheme for handling complaints about regulated legal services; allows for non lawyer ownership of regulated legal services firms, (alternative business structures), through a system of licensing; sets out the regulatory objectives which all approved regulators must have regard to in all their regulatory activities.

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