The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is today publishing its assessment of its compliance with the Legal Services Board’s (LSB) Statement of policy on empowering consumers of 11 April 2022.
The LSB’s Statement is designed to set expectations of legal regulators in the interests of the public and consumers and provides a useful framework for the BSB’s overall approach to consumer empowerment, not least because it helps us to audit the delivery of the “Access” element of our strategic aims, as set out in our Strategic Plan 2022-25. You can read a report summarising our compliance with the Statement here, as well as a more detailed annex of activities here.
These documents detail our compliance with the Statement by reference to its five specific expectations of regulators. We believe that the regulatory arrangements we have in place, together with other activities undertaken, mean that the BSB complies with both the Statement’s general and specific expectations. In several instances, notably in relation to our price transparency and quality indicators work, we assess the activities we have undertaken to date as going beyond the Statement’s specific expectations.
We have also used the Statement to help us identify future interventions, including in developing our strategy until the end of the decade. We plan to consult publicly on this strategy in the coming months.
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