Clause 8
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
9:15 am
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley, Liberal Democrat)
The amendment has been tabled under our names, too. The process is similar to the way in which Ofcom operates, and we are going back to that usual word “independence” and the idea of what is independent of what. The amendment would give the consumer panel some independence of the body that it challenged, in theory. Unusually, we see additional powers in the amendment for the Government.