Our current work programme
Our three-year Strategy aims to encourage change in pursuit of a modern and effective legal services sector that works better for consumers, citizens and practitioners.
Closely linked to the Strategy, our Business Plan 2019/20 describes the detail of work planned for the year ahead.The plan also introduces three key policy objectives that will be key markers for success for the LSB over the next five years.
Details of each project and how they fit within the LSB’s strategic objectives are below. New project information will be added to these pages over the course of the year.
Activity schedules for all projects in the 19/20 plan can be found here.
Promoting the public interest, through ensuring independent, effective and proportionate regulation
- Five-year policy objective: Ongoing competence
- Statutory decision making
- Regulatory Performance
- Securing independent regulation
- Enforcement review
- PCF review
Making it easier for all consumers to access the services they need and get redress
- Five-year policy objective: Public legal Education
- Increasing market transparency for consumers
- Individual legal needs survey
Increasing innovation, growth and the diversity of services and providers
- Five-year policy objective: Technology and regulation
- Planning for EU exit
- Developing a diverse legal workforce
Work related to previous years
- Education and training
- Transparency of regulator costs
- Thematic reviews
- Transitional protections from ABS licensing
- Ministerial Summit 2014 follow-up
- The changing shape of legal services regulation
- Reviewing the cost of regulation
- Non-financial barriers to accessing legal services
- Unregulated legal services providers
- The experiences of consumers in vulnerable circumstances
- Developing standards and performance
- Review of the Part 3 Schedule 4 statutory decision-making process
- Completed thematic reviews
- Alternative business structures
- Reviewing the scope of regulation: will writing
- Education & Training - Legal Education and Training Review
- Quality
- Open data in the legal services market