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No. 58 of 2011

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 would create an independent authority to regulate solicitors and barristers, inspect their work, protect client money and handle complaints, supported by a new disciplinary tribunal with powers to impose penalties or recommend suspension or removal from practice. It would make legal fees clearer by requiring upfront cost information, itemised bills and an independent process for challenging charges, while allowing new legal partnerships and multi-professional practices. The reforms aim to improve consumer protection, competition, accountability and access to reasonably priced legal services.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regulation of the provision of legal services, to provide for the establishment of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, to provide for the establishment of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal to make determinations as to misconduct by legal practitioners, to provide for new structures in which legal practitioners may provide services together or with others, to provide for the establishment of a roll of practising barristers, to provide for reform of the law relating to the charging of costs by legal practitioners and the system of the assessment of costs relating to the provision of legal services, to provide for the manner of appointment of persons to be Senior Counsel, and to provide for related matters

Last updated 13 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Justice and Equality Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: From the Seanad (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
    Dáil
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
  • Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Financial Resolution
    Dáil

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