Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
2015 CHAPTER 2
Commentary on Sections
Part 3 – Courts and Tribunals
Civil proceedings relating to personal injury
Section 60: Inducements: interpretation
511.Section 60, subsection (1) lists both the regulators who are required to monitor and enforce the ban on offering inducements to potential claimants in respect of personal injury claims (including the General Council of the Bar, the Law Society and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) and those legal service providers to whom the ban would apply (“regulated persons”, namely barristers, legal executives, solicitors and alternative business structures). The Lord Chancellor has the power by regulation to extend to other regulators and regulated persons both the prohibition and the duty to monitor and enforce it. Subsection (2) provides relevant definitions.
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