The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) is aiming to give its regulatory wing complete structural independence, in a novel move that would require reform to the Legal Services Act.
Currently, CILEx is named as the approved regulator for legal executives and delegates its responsibilities to CILEx Regulation.
Responding to the Legal Services Board’s Consultation on Proposed Internal Governance Rules last week, however, CILEx said it wants to give CILEx Regulation as much freedom from control as it possibly can under the current rules and will lobby for the necessary changes in legislation to go even further.
CILEx Group Chair, Chris Bones said: ‘We believe that complete independence is a desirable end-goal so as to provide public confidence that legal regulators have no distraction from their core responsibility of serving the public interest.’
