The Legal Services Board (LSB) has launched a consultation on a draft strategy for the legal services sector in England & Wales and is inviting others to say how they will also contribute to reshaping legal services to better meet the needs of society.
The strategy follows the publication of LSB’s State of Legal Services 2020 report last month. It reflected on ten years of independent regulation and concluded although there have been achievements over the last decade, there remain significant levels of unmet legal need. To galvanise action the LSB has suggested nine priority areas of focus in 2021-24. Those areas include: