Clause 80
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
9:15 pm
Bridget Prentice (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Lewisham East, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman is right; the bodies concerned are the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the Discipline and Appeals Committee of the CLC. The Law Society cannot of its own accord simply create an appeals body, nor can it modify on its own the powers of another statutory body such as the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. That is why the provision is in the Bill. If I may, I shall write to the Committee with more detail on the structure of the appeals bodies, because further discussions on what the structure will be are ongoing.