{"id":4518,"date":"2003-07-24T14:29:27","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/07\/24\/major-probe-of-lawyer-discipl"},"modified":"2013-01-12T08:05:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T13:05:14","slug":"major-probe-of-lawyer-discipline-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/07\/24\/major-probe-of-lawyer-discipline-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Probe of Lawyer Discipline in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s edition of Legal Week<\/a> <\/em>(UK)\u00a0reports that “The Government has recruited an industry figure to hold a wide-ranging inquiry into the regulation of the legal profession in a move that could see the Law Society stripped of its regulatory powers<\/strong>.” The official announcement of the investigation, which may take 18 months, is expected to be made today by the Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA).<\/p>\n

The article<\/a> (written by James Lumley, July 24, 2003) note (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

“A key focus<\/span> of the inquiry will be the Law Society’s position as both the representative body for solicitors and the regulator of the profession<\/span>, in light of repeated attacks by the Government and the Legal Services Ombudsman on the quality of the society’s complaints handling.”<\/p>\n

“[T]he Government is already understood to be preparing to increase the powers of the Legal Services Ombudsman<\/span>. The ombudsman is expected to be turned into a commissioner, with the power to fine the Law Society and Bar Council if they fail to meet their consumer redress targets.”
\n“The news comes in the same week that a Legal Week<\/em>\/EJ Legal poll of more than 100 partners uncovered strong support for the Law Society losing its dual role, with 64% of respondents calling for such a move.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Legal Week<\/em> also reports that the study will be looking into recent failures to police conflict of interest problems, while tackling controversial issues, including whether multi-disciplinary partnerships should be allowed.<\/p>\n

A legal reformer could get envious seeing that there’s a nation where these issues are taken seriously by the Government and<\/em> the regulatory scheme can be addessed on a nationwide basis, rather than fiefdom by fiefdom.\u00a0 [By the way, I discovered this Legal Week<\/em> article while browsing the law-related headlines collected — from around the world, with emphasis on UK and USA\u00a0— at In the Papers<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s edition of Legal Week (UK)\u00a0reports that “The Government has recruited an industry figure to hold a wide-ranging inquiry into the regulation of the legal profession in a move that could see the Law Society stripped of its regulatory powers.” The official announcement of the investigation, which may take 18 months, is expected to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1aS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14432,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/14432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}