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‘Slow evolution’: Government plans further shakeup of legal regulation to encourage alternative providers

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Legal Business
1 December 2015
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The government is to kick off a new consultation in spring 2016, part of which will be on making legal services regulators independent from their representative bodies and lowering barriers to entry even further for non-legal businesses to offer legal services.

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