Regulating legal services

The government is to launch a consultation over regulation of the legal services sector, the Chancellor confirmed in his Budget this week. Welcoming the announcement, Law Society Chief Executive Catherine Dixon said it presents “an opportunity to get better and simpler regulation. Changes to the regulatory framework must address the current complex situation, with a multiplicity of regulators and the fact that paradoxically the most qualified and trained are the most regulated, while those who may not have any legal training are not regulated.”