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NLJ this week: Regulation matters

02 July 2020
Issue: 7893 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Regulatory
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Professor Mayson’s ‘Reforming Legal Services’ report was ‘too generous about the Byzantine structures’ of professional regulation, John Gould, senior partner, Russell Cooke, writes in this week’s NLJ

Welcoming the ‘valuable’ report, Gould agrees that the answer to consumer protection is ‘to treat the regulation of title and the regulation of activity differently’. Moreover, ‘there is no need for a multiplicity of regulators. The existing holders of titles can, through their representative bodies, determine who may use the title’.

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Issue: 7893 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Regulatory
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