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Legal Services Bill [HL]

Lying behind a lot of concerns expressed about the lack of appeal procedures in the Legal Services Bill is the fact that the Legal Services Board is being given such wide powers that it can introduce sanctions against an approved regulator for actions by individuals or organisations over which the approved regulator can have no control. It is in the context of the lack of appeal procedures that most of the concerns arise. Everyone wants this new system to succeed. Perhaps we have already made clear to this Committee our concerns that the powers may be too wide, in particular those to impose sanctions on approved regulators in respect of actions over which they had no influence or control. That lies behind a lot of the points that are being made.