Legal Services Act 2007

Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)

129 In section 44 (barristers employed by solicitors)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) omit “is employed by”,

(ii) for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

“(a) is employed by an authorised person, or

(b) is a manager of such a person,”, and

(iii) for “his employer” substitute “the authorised person of which the barrister is an employee or a manager”,

(b) in subsection (2) after “employees” insert “or managers of an authorised person”, and

(c) after that subsection insert—

“(3) In this section—

• “authorised person” means a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which is a reserved legal activity (within the meaning of that Act), and

• “manager” has the same meaning as in that Act (see section 207 of that Act).”