Bar Standards Board Licensing Authority Application
| Reference Number | Application | Status (19 May 2016) |
Decision Period | Documents | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015/BSB | BSB application to become a Licensing Authority | The LSB has now made its decision and has sent a recommendation to the Lord Chancellor. | 29 April 2015 to 28 April 2016 Schedule 10, 13(1) of the Legal Services Act requires that the LSB must give a decision on an application being made to the Board. This can be extended to no more than 16 months (Schd 10, 13(4)). |
Synopsis Application Annexes A-C Annex D Annexes E-G Annexes H-I Annexes J-L Annexes M-P Competitions and Markets Authority advice Consumer Panel advice Lord Chief Justice advice Bar Standards Board response to mandatory consultees |
The LSB is granting the application. Please see our Decision Notice for more information. The rules that are approved are the BSB's Handbook which includes the licensing rules a licensed body must adhere to. |