The Legal Services Act 2007 and Professional Governance: Oversight, Representation and Regulation

Although the LSA 2007 leaves the governance structures of the legal professional bodies intact, it fundamentally changes their powers of self-governance. The main change is in the self-regulatory capacity of the governing councils.

⁵¹ D Clementi, Review of the Regulatory Framework for Legal Services in England and Wales (London, DCA, 2004) ch B, at para 23.

⁵² ibid, ch B, at para 23.

⁵³ N Hilborne, ‘Voters Reject Split Society’ Law Society Gazette 16 October 1996, at 1.

⁵⁴ Law Society Gazette 15 September 2005, at 4.

answerable to the Legal Services Board (LSB).^[747] The powers of the LSB impinge on the legal professions’ former power in a number of ways.

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