Draft Legal Services Bill, Explanatory Notes and Regulatory Impact Assessment

Draft Legal Services Bill, Explanatory Notes and Regulatory Impact Assessment
Author: Great Britain: Department for Constitutional Affairs
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006-05-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0101683928
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This Command Paper brings together the Draft Legal Services Bill, explanatory notes and Regulatory Impact Assessment. The Bill sets out its' objective to establish the Legal Services Board and its various functions. The Bill itself contains 159 clauses and 15 schedules. The parts of the Bill can be set out as follows: Part 1: The Regulatory Objectives, sets out 7 regulatory objectives of the regulators, which guides the Legal Services Board; Part 2: The Legal Services Board, sets out the structure and functions of the Board; Part 3: Reserved Legal Activities, lists and defines the reserved legal activities, and explains who is entitled to carry out these activities, and the penalties for those not entitled; Part 4: Regulation of Approved Regulators, sets out the general duties of approved regulators, and the powers that the Board has to ensure that these are being carried out; Part 5: Alternative Business Structures, makes provision for new business structures in legal services; Part 6: Legal Complaints, establishes an independent complaints handling body called the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC); Part 7: Financial Provisions, sets out arrangements for the funding of both the Board and the Office for Legal Complaints; Part 7: Miscellaneous and General Provisions makes provision for any guidance to be produced by the Board, and allows the Board to enter into voluntary arrangements. The Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) sets out the rationale for reform of the regulation of legal services.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737
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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

A Guide to the Making of Federal Acts and Regulations

A Guide to the Making of Federal Acts and Regulations
Author: Canada. Department of Justice. Legislative Services Branch
Publisher: Department of Justice Canada
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1996
Genre: Law
ISBN:
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Acts and regulations are among a government's most powerful tools for fulfilling its democratic mandate. The steps involved in making them have evolved over centuries and reflect the attention and care required to ensure that they operate effectively and fairly. This guide provides a comprehensive description of how Acts are made at the federal level in Canada and answers questions about particular aspects of how they are made and the people involved. It also outlines the main steps involved in making federal regulations.

Draft Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill and explanatory notes

Draft Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill and explanatory notes
Author: Great Britain: Cabinet Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2007-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780101708326
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This draft Bill comprises three parts with four schedules, and it contains measures designed to facilitate more consistent, targeted and effective regulatory enforcement through a) the establishment of a statutory corporation, to be known as the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO), in England and Wales; and b) the introduction of a new expanded framework for regulatory sanctions in the UK which will enable Ministers to confer on specified regulators new civil sanctioning powers, in relation to particular criminal offences, including fixed monetary penalties, discretionary requirements and enforcement undertakings. This draft Bill follows on from the recommendations of the Hampton Review 'Reducing administrative burdens: effective inspection and enforcement' published in March 2005 (information can be found at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/budget/budget_05/other_documents/bud_bud05_hampton.cfm) and the Macrory Review 'Regulatory justice: making sanctions effective' published in November 2006 (information can be found at www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/regulation/reviewing_regulation/penalties/index.asp).

Principles of Legislative and Regulatory Drafting

Principles of Legislative and Regulatory Drafting
Author: Ian McLeod
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2009-10-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847315410
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Principles of Legislative and Regulatory Drafting provides a succinct guide to an area of law and practice which has previously been poorly served by English textbooks. It explains how drafters can convert legislative and regulatory policy into a form which has the desired effect in the most direct and accessible way. On the basis that those who seek to communicate must be conscious of how their words will be read, it includes a chapter on interpretation. Other chapters include the nature of drafting instructions (including ethical considerations), the general principles of drafting, the protection of human rights, the creation of statutory corporations and schemes of licensing, subordinate legislation, and the creation of criminal offences. The principles and skills of drafting are very largely common to both the legislative and regulatory fields, but the book draws attention to areas in which significant differences arise. Extracts from the Interpretation Act 1978 and the European Convention on Human Rights are included as Appendices. The book provides an invaluable introduction for those engaged in legislative and regulatory drafting, while also being useful to anyone who is interested in the creation and interpretation of legislative and regulatory texts.