Giving the Solicitors Reguation Authority power to oversee legal executives and changing their title to ‘chartered lawyer’ will confuse the public, the Law Society has warned.
Responding to CILEX’s consultation on switching regulator, Chancery Lane said in no uncertain terms it does not support the proposals and believes chartered legal executives are best managed by their current regulator, CILEx Regulation.
Changing authorised legal executives’ title to ‘chartered lawyer’ will add another layer of confusion and complexity to consumers’ ability to distinguish between legal executives and solicitors, the Society said.
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