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FOCUS OF THE DAY: Ministry of Justice officials have met frontline legal services regulators for discussions on the future of the profession, the lord chancellor has revealed. Michael Gove pledged in June to conduct a review of the Legal Services Act within the current parliament. He said then that the act, which set up the current legal services regulatory system, creates a ‘danger of regulators falling over each other’s feet’. The date for the review remains unknown, but Gove has confirmed that civil servants have begun the ground work through talks with the SRA, BSB and other interested groups. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
FOCUS OF THE DAY: Ministry of Justice officials have met frontline legal services regulators for discussions on the future of the profession, the lord chancellor has revealed. Michael Gove pledged in June to conduct a review of the Legal Services Act within the current parliament. He said then that the act, which set up the current legal services regulatory system, creates a ‘danger of regulators falling over each other’s feet’. The date for the review remains unknown, but Gove has confirmed that civil servants have begun the ground work through talks with the SRA, BSB and other interested groups. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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