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Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010
2010 asp 16
The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 6th October 2010 and received Royal Assent on 9th November 2010
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to allow and to make provision for regulating the supply of certain legal services by licensed entities; to extend rights to obtain confirmation to the estates of deceased persons; to regulate will and other testamentary writing by non-lawyers; to make provision concerning the Law Society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates and for the professional arrangements to which solicitors and advocates are subject; to allow court rules to permit the making of oral submissions by lay representatives in civil cases; and for connected purposes.
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