Lawyers are sometimes failing to meet the ethical standards expected of them, according to the Legal Services Board.
The oversight body that regulates the legal regulators in England and Wales is launching a consultation today on upholding professional ethical duties. This sets out five “outcomes” that regulators would have to implement so that legal professionals would provide a better service to their clients and the wider public.
Why does the Legal Services Board think that yet more regulation is needed? What does it think that bodies such as the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board will make of its proposals? And what will this mean for legal professionals who must already pay for two levels of regulation?
These are among the questions I put to Richard Orpin (pictured above), director of regulation and policy at the Legal Service Board, in the latest edition of A Lawyer Talks.
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