The Legal Services Commission will close at 4pm, Monday 23 December 2024 and reopen at 9am, Thursday 2 January 2025.
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A properly made costs agreement is a contract for the payment of legal costs. It may also deal with other rights and responsibilities between a law practice and a client.
If there is a dispute between you and your lawyer about your legal bill, you may be able to have it independently assessed.
Claim farmers approach people and pressure them into making a claim for compensation. They then sell the information to a law practice or claims management service to handle the claim. Claim farming is an offence.
The Commission works to maintain public trust and confidence in the administration of justice. Our annual reports detail each year’s complaints, investigations and disciplinary proceedings, as well as our public and professional education work.
You have the right to ask what information we hold about you by filling out a Right to Information (RTI) application. RTI applications take up to 7 weeks to process.
Our publication scheme describes and categorises the information we routinely make available to the public.
The 2022–2027 strategic plan builds on the Commission’s work over previous years to ensure the Commission remains an effective and high-quality regulator of legal services.
When an applicant receives information from the Commission under the Right to Information Act 2009 (RTI Act), this information may be made publicly available in our disclosure log.
To carry out its duties, the Commission may need to collect, store, use and disclose personal information. We treat confidentiality and your privacy very seriously.
