Regulatory performance reports
We hold the legal services regulators to account for their performance through the operation of our regulatory performance assessment framework.
Where we undertake a review of performance, we will collate and analyse the information generated through the review. This will form the basis of a report providing an assessment of performance. The report will highlight areas where a regulator's performance has met or has not met the standard(s). Reports will not routinely include all data or evidence gathered on which our assessment is based.
We may also from time to time publish a thematic report which highlights the general learning and good practice we have identified across our regulatory performance work.
Performance assessment reports and thematic reports will be published on this page.
2019 Regulatory performance report and regulator action plans
In January 2019 we published our transitional assessment of each legal services regulatory body against the LSB's revised regulatory performance standards. The report included action plans for each regulatory body for any outcome(s) which are not yet met. The report and action plans are available below.
| Transitional assessment report and regulator action plans (January 2019) |
| Regulatory performance transitional assessment report |
Under the revised regulatory performance framework the regulators performance is kept under ongoing review. The regulators' current performance against the 5 standards and 26 underpinning outcomes is available below.
| Current performance assessment | |
| Bar Standards Board | Performance assessment |
| CILEx Regulation | Performance assessment |
| Council for Licensed Conveyancers | Performance assessment |
| Cost Lawyers Standards Board | Performance assessment |
| Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales | Performance assessment |
| Intellectual Property Regulation Board | Performance assessment |
| Faculty Office | Performance assessment |
| Solicitors Regulation Authority | Performance assessment |
2015/16 Regulatory Standards reports and action plans
In May 2016 we published our Regulatory Standards Thematic report and the individual performance reports for each of the regulators. We then reported in June 2017 on the progress made by each regulator against their action plans. Overall, significant progress had been made by the regulators in implementing the improvements set out in their action plans.
2012/13 Regulatory Standards reports and 2014/15 update report
In these reports we reported on the regulators’ progress against the regulatory standards since their first self-assessments were completed in 2012/13 .The reports are available in the table below.
Further information
For further information, please contact Tom Peplow