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Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s reply. She is reposing great confidence in the general duties, and she may prove to be right. However, she is well aware of the institute’s strength of feeling that, if special provisions are not in the Bill, co-operation and avoidance of conflict will not occur. I shall not press this amendment to a vote. We shall simply have to wait and see whether the facts bear out the Government’s confidence. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 176B and 176C not moved.] Clause 58 [Referral of report by the Secretary of State to the Competition Commission]: