Clause 18
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
12:15 pm
Stephen Hesford (PPS (Rt Hon Baroness Amos, President of the Council), Privy Council Office; Wirral West, Labour)
With respect to that point and that made by Lord Hunt of Wirral in the other place, I find myself agreeing with Baroness Ashton. The measures in new clause 14 and amendment No. 256 would be bureaucratic; they would set up a new system—the so-called register. It would lack transparency, which would drive a coach and horses through one of the aims of the Bill—to bring in new competition and promote consumer understanding of the legal services and entities with which they deal.