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Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 164: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Letter of engagement 80. A legal practitioner who is a partner in or an employee of a multi-disciplinary practice shall not provide legal services to a client of the multi-disciplinary practice unless he or she provides the client with a notice in writing which shall—(a)...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 165: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Multi-disciplinary practice to have professional indemnity insurance 81.(1) A multi-disciplinary practice shall not provide services unless there is in force, at the time of the provision of such services, a policy of professional indemnity insurance which adequately covers the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 166: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Saver for Compensation Fund under section 21 of Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1960 82.Nothing in this Part shall be construed as extending the obligation of the Law Society under section 21(4) (as amended by section 29 of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1994) of the Solicitors (Amendment)...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 167: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Power of Authority to specify measures 83.(1) Where the Authority is satisfied that a provision of this Part or regulations made under it are not being, or have not been, complied with by the multi-disciplinary practice or managing legal practitioner concerned, it may, in accordance...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 168: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Application to High Court for order suspending or ceasing provision of legal services by multi-disciplinary practice 84. (1) Where a multi-disciplinary practice or, as the case may be, a managing legal practitioner, fails to comply with a notice under section 83, the Authority may...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 169: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Regulations on operation of legal partnerships and multi-disciplinary practices 85. (1) The Authority shall make regulations in relation to the operation and management of a legal partnership or a multi-disciplinary practice. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1),...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 170: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Public consultation on operation etc., of legal partnerships, multi-disciplinary practices 86.(1) The Authority—(a) immediately following its establishment, shall, and (b) periodically thereafter, may,engage in a public consultation process in relation to the regulation,...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 171: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Public consultation on certain issues relating to barristers 87.(1) The Authority shall engage in a public consultation process on—(a) the extent, if any, to which the restriction on legal practitioners, other than solicitors, holding the moneys of clients, as provided under...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 172: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “PART 8 OBLIGATIONS OF PRACTISING BARRISTERSRoll of practising barristers 76.(1) The Authority shall—(a) set up and maintain a roll of practising barristers (in this Part referred to as the “roll”), and (b) within six months of the commencement date, enter on the roll the name...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: It might be better to leave that discussion until we reach the next-----

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am pleased the Deputy finds me helpful.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I enjoy giving the Deputy a greater opportunity to beat me up. It is part of my personal masochistic tendencies.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am looking at exactly the same document as the one from which Deputy Mac Lochlainn has just read. I received it a few days ago and went through it personally, as did my officials. I referenced it earlier as a constructive and helpful document in the continuing development of the Bill. Indeed, I addressed some of the issues the Deputy has just mentioned. I do not want to delay the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Chairman and I am sorry for delaying everyone. I shall move on to the prohibition on inducement, which is section 79(3) in the amendments that we are discussing. Section 79(3) has a requirement prohibiting anyone from inducing or causing a lawyer in a multi-disciplinary practice from acting in a non-compliant manner. Section 79 (4) requires that accounting, receipts and fees...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: We have a new section 74. We do this deliberately to confuse the Chairman.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 158: In page 65, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “Notification of Authority of commencement, cessation of provision of legal services by multi-disciplinary practice 75. (1) A multi-disciplinary practice that intends to provide legal services—(a) shall notify the Authority, in accordance with subsection (3), of that fact, and (b) shall not...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am happy to answer that. It is the intention of the Bill that a barrister can do exactly what the Deputy is proposing, namely, that there will be no obligation to be a member of the Law Library as such, that they can ply their trade as a barrister, that they can operate an office, alone or with others, as a barrister, that they would adhere to the professional principles, and that they...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: The answer is "Yes".

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 160: In page 67, between lines 22 and 23 but in Part 7, to insert the following: “Partners in multi-disciplinary practice 76. (1) Each partner in a multi-disciplinary practice shall be jointly and severally liable in respect of his or her acts or omissions, those of the other partners and those of the employees of the partnership. (2) A partner in a...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I intend to bring forward amendments on that matter. It is an issue that has arisen over the years. In other legal systems it is possible for a legal service to be provided through limited liability partnerships, but it requires ensuring that client protection is available, that commitments to maintain indemnity insurance are complied with and that, in the context of solicitors, for...