The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st January 1991 a number of provisions in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. These provisions relate to the allocation of family proceedings in county courts (section 9); the Legal Services Ombudsman (sections 21 to 26 and Schedule 3); rights of audience (section 27); rights to conduct litigation (section 28); rights of audience for barristers and solicitors (sections 31 and (2) and 32 (1) and (2)); solicitors' rights to conduct litigation (section 33(1) and (2)); rights of Scottish and Northern Ireland lawyers to practise in England and Wales (section 60); the right of barristers to contract for their services (section 61); the immunity of advocates from actions in negligence and contract (section 62); multi-disciplinary and multi-national practices (section 66); solicitors' rights of audience in certain Crown Court centres (section 67); the preparation of documents by registered patent agents and trade mark agents (section 68); offences (section 70); qualifications for judicial and other appointments (section 71 and Schedule 10); district judges (section 74); restrictions on judges and others from providing certain legal services (section 75 and Schedule 11); judicial oaths (section 76); retirement age of certain Supreme Court officers (section 77); the merger of the offices of Registrar of Criminal Appeals and Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office (section 78); provisions relating to judicial pensions (sections 83 and 84); an amendment to the Child Care Act 1980 (section 116(1) and schedule 16, paragraph 8); functions of the Treasury (section 118); and minor and consequential amendments, transitionals and savings and repeals.