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NLJ this week: Commercial success or committing an offence―the boundaries of reserved legal activities

12 August 2022
Issue: 7991 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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What is a reserved legal activity? The answer, writes John Gould, senior partner, Russell-Cooke, in this week’s NLJ, is increasingly hard to define

While the general public think lawyers and legal services are regulated, a large number of providers are not? So where are the boundaries, and how do you know when they’ve been crossed?

‘With increasing numbers of non-regulated providers, the boundaries of what they can and cannot do are ever more important,’ says Gould.

‘Yet these boundaries are not impenetrable barriers, but rather a zone of jeopardy within which an unauthorised entrant may either find that they can enjoy commercial success, or else be guilty of a criminal offence.’

In this article, Gould looks at the definitions, the issues at stake and the case for modernisation.

Issue: 7991 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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