Legal Ombudsman
Exclusive: Law Society and LSB on collision course over complaints-handling targets
A row is brewing between the Law Society and Legal Services Board over the wind-down of the Legal Complaints Service, Legal Futures can reveal. Law Society chief executive Des Hudson has told us that the LSB’s insistence that the LCS’s current performance targets stay in place as it heads towards closure, despite dwindling staff, is “unthoughtful and an error of judgement”.
Legal Ombudsman heads towards opening
The Legal Ombudsman – the operating name of the Office for Legal Complaints – has officially opened its new home in central Birmingham and announced its first wave of recruitment for more than 300 workers.
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There are 17 million wills waiting to be written
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The case for a single legal services regulator: why the current system is failing
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