Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 644

The Solicitors (Compensation for Inadequate Professional Services) Order 2000

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2000 No. 644

LEGAL PROFESSION

The Solicitors (Compensation for Inadequate Professional Services) Order 2000

	Made	7th March 2000
	Laid before Parliament	8th March 2000
	Coming into force	31st March 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1A to the Solicitors Act 1974[1], hereby makes the following Order-

    1.This Order may be cited as the Solicitors (Compensation for Inadequate Professional Services) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 31st March 2000.

    2.In paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1A to the Solicitors Act 1974, for the figure " £1,000" there shall be substituted the figure "£5,000".



Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor


David Lock
Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department

Dated 7th March 2000

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the maximum compensation that the Council of the Law Society may direct a solicitor to pay his client for inadequate professional services from £1,000 to £5,000.

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Notes:

[1] 1974 c. 47; Schedule 1A was added by Schedule 15 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41).back

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