The Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2019 has brought into force new legislation governing the operation of solicitors which incorporates historical structural reform of the profession.
The commencement order includes the following elements of the 2015 Act, which now come into operation:
- New public complaints and professional conduct regime supported separately by the new and independent Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (part 6),
- Roll-out of Limited Liability Partnerships for solicitors (part 8),
- New and more consumer-friendly legal costs transparency requirements on legal practitioners, supported by the new Office of the Legal Costs Adjudicators and a Schedule of Legal Costs Principles (parts 10 and 11),
- Establishment of a new advisory committee on the Grant of Patents of Precedence for the conferral of senior counsel (part 12),
- Relevant repeals of the Solicitors Acts (part 13).
Please note that this firm’s terms have taken into account this legislation, see here.
