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Legal Services Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 52: 52: Clause 32 , page 16, line 30, at end insert ““; and a direction given shall be subject to judicial review on which proportionality, compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights, the independence of the legal profession and the quality of legal advice, may receive consideration”” The noble Lord said: In moving Amendment No. 52 I shall speak also to Amendment No. 139F and, by leave, refer to Amendment No. 65. I thank my noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral, with whom I had the privilege to serve on the Joint Committee, for his support. In every sense of the word, these are probing amendments.