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Legal Reform Bill

This is the text of the Legal Reform Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 1 April 1998.

 
 
  
Legal Reform Bill
 
 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

PART I
LEGAL SERVICES
Clause 
1.Access to Legal Services.
2.National Legal Service.
3.Legal Services Commission: constitution.
4.Legal Services Commission: duties.
5.Legal Services Commission: powers.
6.National Legal Service: funding and accounting.
7.Legal Services Fund.
8.Costs of successful unassisted parties.
9.Complaints.
10.Private work.

PART II
OTHER REFORMS
11.Minister of Justice.
12.Judicial Appointments Committee.
13.Parliamentary Committee on the Administration of Justice.
14.Barristers: abolition of restrictive practices.
15.Solicitors: removal of restrictive practices.
16.Barristers' and solicitors' fees.
17.Rank and title of Queen's Counsel.
18.Legal Professions Ombudsman.
19.Adjournments.
20.Courts martial and disciplinary courts.

PART III
GENERAL
21.Interpretation.
22.Parliamentary procedure for regulations.
23.Financial provisions.
24.Repeals.
25.Short title, commencement and extent.
 

SCHEDULE:--
    -Repeals.
 


 
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