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The Solicitors (Compensation for Inadequate Professional Services) Order 2000
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2000 No. 644
LEGAL PROFESSION
The Solicitors (Compensation for Inadequate Professional Services) Order 2000
Made
7th March 2000
Laid before Parliament
8th March 2000
Coming into force
31st March 2000
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1A to the Solicitors Act 1974(1), hereby makes the following Order–
1. This Order may be cited as the Solicitors (Compensation for Inadequate Professional Services) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 31st March 2000.
2. In paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1A to the Solicitors Act 1974, for the figure “ £1,000” there shall be substituted the figure “£5,000”.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
David Lock
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 7th March 2000
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the maximum compensation that the Council of the Law Society may direct a solicitor to pay his client for inadequate professional services from £1,000 to £5,000.
(1)
1974 c. 47; Schedule 1A was added by Schedule 15 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41).
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