Explanatory Notes

Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 8

27 June 2025

Background

Schedule 1 – Law Society of Scotland

Part 2 – Regulation of legal businesses

Complaints

266.Paragraphs 29 to 33 amend sections 51 to 54 and schedule 4 of the 1980 Act to enable complaints to be brought against all types of authorised legal business in a manner that is similar to how incorporated practices were treated previously. This therefore means that sole traders or law firms may now face complaints for the actions of their business as an entity, in a way that was not previously possible.