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Legal Services Bill [HL]

If the Minister is right in her answer to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern—and I would beg to doubt it—it adds to the incubus that rests on her shoulders to come up with a better form of words. To my mind, the form of words that has been tested and argued by many lawyers, with the Law Society playing a considerable part in the formulation, goes towards meeting a deficit in the Bill. I would be reluctant to abandon this form of words on the—if I may say so—mere bland assertion of the noble Baroness that it would open the door to wider action by the Legal Services Board than is intended. That is not the way that I read the plain meaning of the words.