Schedule 4
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
12:00 pm
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley, Liberal Democrat)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Nicholas, and I welcome you back from the Falklands.
There is an interesting point about schedule 4, and particularly this amendment. The amendment would make things far more efficient. Rather than trapping everything in a bureaucratic muddle, it would allow the Legal Services Board to identify those things with which the board must get involved. To that extent, if we are looking for an efficient and effective way of regulating the legal profession, this would be a good starting point. It would be worth making the same point on schedule 4 itself given that it is interesting how the Lord Chief Justice is important here, but not important in terms of appointing the Legal Services Board. However, the amendment would provide a more effective approach; it is very good.