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Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. I look forward to reading her letter. Until I do, I cannot respond to the arguments of parliamentary counsel; but I can still say that the words of Clause 3(2) seem to say to me, quite clearly, as they do to the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan, that if, in the subjective judgment of the Legal Services Board, it considers that it is not ““reasonably practicable”” to act in a way that is compatible with the regulatory objectives, then it can act in a way that is not. Without having received the learned opinion of parliamentary council, that seems to me the position. If it is, I am sure that the noble Baroness would be very unhappy about it.