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The Legal Services Board is an oversight regulator, and sits at the top of the regulatory system for legal services in England and Wales. It provides regulatory oversight of the eight ‘’approved regulators’’ named in the Legal Services Act of 2007 (LSA 2007), and two additional regulators added since the act gained Royal Assent.
Among other measures, the act: Gives courts greater discretion to issue conditional discharges for young persons pleading guilty to a first offence [4]; The objectives of the Act included making significant savings in the cost of the scheme, [5] discouraging unnecessary and adversarial litigation at public expense, [5] and targeting legal aid to those who need it the most.
The first governing body was composed of a Board of 15 Commission Members. The first chairman was Sir Frederick Crawford. [15] Contrary to common opinion, it is independent of the government and not a government organisation. [16] It is independent of the police, the courts and governments and any political body. [16]
Other responsibilities limited to England and Wales include the administration of all courts and tribunals, land registration, legal aid and the regulation of legal services, coroners and the investigation of deaths, administrative justice and public law, the maintenance of the judiciary, public guardianship and mental incapacity, supervision ...
Schedule 1 to the Courts Act 2003 made provision for the establishment of the boards. [1] There were 21 boards across the country. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The courts boards were abolished in 2012, [ 4 ] under the plans of the coalition government as part of its 2010 economic and governmental reforms ).
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In April 2024, the world's first Sikh court was established by Sikh lawyers in the 15th-century Old Hall at Lincoln's Inn, London.The court aims to provide an alternative forum for dispute resolution for UK-based Sikhs involved in family and civil disputes, operating on a mediation-arbitration framework in tandem with the UK courts to alleviate backlogs and offer culturally informed judgments.
Judicial review is a part of UK constitutional law that enables people to challenge the exercise of power, usually by a public body. A person who contends that an exercise of power is unlawful may apply to the Administrative Court (a part of the King's Bench Division of the High Court) for a decision. If the court finds the decision unlawful it ...