Reserved Legal Activities: History and Rationale
August 2010
This research paper forms the first part of the LSI’s comprehensive review of reserved legal activities, which aims to inform the Legal Services Board’s policy in this area.
The paper concludes that there are few apparent historical policy reasons for originally defining these activities as reserved and that therefore the reserved activity structure appears to be built on ‘tenuous foundations’. This, it argues, means there is a lack of sound criteria on which the Legal Services Board can base future recommendations for adding or removing activities from the list...
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