Legal Services
I am a lawyer and qualify to carry out the work that I do under the guidance provided by the list for Reserved and Unreserved Legal Activities so provided by the judicial system in England and Wales.
The rights that I operate under are provided by the Legal Services Act …” The Legal Services Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that seeks to liberalise and regulate the market for legal services in England and Wales, to encourage more competition and to provide a new route for consumer complaints.”
The reserved activities are sometimes referred to as the “inner circle” of legal services – although, except for the rights of the audience, they do not necessarily align with the parts of practice that carry the greatest remuneration or cultural kudos1.
There are currently only six areas of legal activity that Parliament has determined must be reserved. My main operations are related to unreserved activities which I have listed under the services tab in the drop-down menu.
These six reserved activities are listed in Section 12 and Schedule 2 of the Legal Services Act. The reserved activities are:
- the exercise of rights of the audience (i.e., appearing as an advocate before a court);
- the conduct of litigation (i.e., managing a case through its court processes);
- reserved instrument activities (i.e., dealing with the transfer of land or property under specific legal provisions).
- probate activities (i.e., handling probate matters for clients).
- notarial activities (i.e., work governed by the Public Notaries Act 1801); and
- the administration of oaths (i.e., taking oaths, swearing affidavits, etc.).
The unreserved activities All services that are not included under reserved activities can be undertaken by persons such as myself. So, these services listed below can be delivered by non-solicitors with the protection to service users provided by the consumer Right Rights Act.