Proceeding contribution from Lord Beamish (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 4 June 2007. It occurred during Debate on bill on Legal Services Bill [Lords].
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
Does not the hon. Gentleman agree that that is already happening with regard to the legal profession? There is gravitation towards not only larger firms, but firms that specialise in certain areas. From my experience of miners’ compensation, that is a good thing, because some of the scandalous cases with which I have dealt involved the sort of small practices of family firms to which he referred that had no experience in dealing with complex litigation. Such firms do not say to clients, ““We are not competent to deal with this,”” but take on the case and give a bad service.
Secondary information
- Type
- Proceeding contribution
- Reference
- 461 c59-60
- Session
- 2006-07
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Complaints Compensation Consumers Costs Competition Legal profession Finance Fees and charges Legal aid scheme Industrial injuries Law Society Legal Services Ombudsman Misconduct Low incomes Public appointments Ombudsman Lord Chief Justice Lord Chancellor's Department Standards Regulation Trade unions Rural areas Solicitors Wills General Council of the Bar Legal Services Board Office for Legal Complaints Alternative business structures
- Legislation
- Legal Services Bill (HL) 2006-07
- Link
- View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk
Librarians' tools
- Timestamp
- 2023-12-15 12:35:21 +0000
- URI
- http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_400192
- In Indexing
- http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_400192
- In Solr
- https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_400192