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Courts and Legal Services Act 1990
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F118A The Consultative Panel.E+W
(1)The [F2Secretary of State] shall appoint persons to form a panel to be known as the Legal Services Consultative Panel.
(2)In appointing persons to the Consultative Panel the [F2Secretary of State] shall have regard to the desirability of securing that the Consultative Panel includes persons who (between them) have experience in or knowledge of—
(a)the provision of legal services;
(b)the lay advice sector;
(c)civil or criminal proceedings and the working of the courts;
(d)legal education and training;
(e)the maintenance of the professional standards of persons who provide legal services;
(f)the maintenance of standards in professions other than the legal profession;
(g)consumer affairs;
(h)commercial affairs; and
(i)social conditions.
(3)The Consultative Panel shall have—
(a)the duty of assisting in the maintenance and development of standards in the education, training and conduct of persons offering legal services by considering relevant issues in accordance with a programme of work approved by the [F2Secretary of State] and, where the Consultative Panel considers it appropriate to do so, making recommendations to him;
(b)the duty of providing to the [F2Secretary of State] , at his request, advice about particular matters relating to any aspect of the provision of legal services (including the education, training and conduct of persons offering legal services); and
(c)the functions conferred or imposed on it by other provisions of this Act or any other enactment.
(4)The Consultative Panel may, in performance of the duty in subsection (3)(a), seek information from or give advice to any body or person.
(5)The [F2Secretary of State] shall publish—
(a)any recommendations made to him by the Consultative Panel in performance of the duty in paragraph (a) of subsection (3); and
(b)any advice provided to him by the Consultative Panel in performance of the duty in paragraph (b) of that subsection.
(6)The [F2Secretary of State] shall consider any recommendations made to him by the Consultative Panel in performance of the duty in subsection (3)(a).
(7)The [F2Secretary of State]—
(a)shall make available to the Consultative Panel appropriate administrative support; and
(b)may pay to any of the persons forming it any such allowances, and make any such reimbursement of expenses, as he considers appropriate.
(8)For the purposes of the law of defamation the publication of any advice by the Consultative Panel in the exercise of any of its functions shall be absolutely privileged.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 18A inserted (1.1.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 35(2) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 2(a)
F2Words in s. 18A substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(a) (with arts. 6, 8)
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