The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report and Accounts 2007-2008 - A Work in Progress

 

The Commissioner's Annual Report and Accounts 2007-2008 - A Work in Progress, gives an assessment of the work undertaken by the Commissioner and her Office between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008, to encourage and influence the Law Society's Legal Complaints Service (LCS) and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to improve their handling of complaints against solicitors in England and Wales.

Contents and Commissioner's Foreword  [PDF 1,190 kb, 8 pages] PDF
Executive summary  [PDF 1,550 kb, 8 pages] PDF
Chapter 1  [PDF 911 kb, 8 pages] PDF
Chapter 2  [PDF 1,880 kb, 16 pages] PDF
Chapter 3  [PDF 1,200 kb, 8 pages] PDF
Chapter 4  [PDF 700 kb, 6 pages] PDF
Chapter 5  [PDF 480 kb, 4 pages] PDF
Chapter 6  [PDF 1,450 kb,10 pages] PDF
Chapter 7  [PDF 689 kb, 8 pages] PDF
Financial Information [PDF156 kb, 24 pages] PDF

Crynodeb Gweithredol [PDF 166 kb, 10 pages] PDF

Press notice 9 July 2008 [PDF 35 kb, 2 pages] PDF


The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report and Accounts 2006-2007 - Cycle of change

The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report and Accounts 2006-2007 - Cycle of change, outlines the work carried out by the Commissioner and her Office, to ensure that the Law Society's Legal Complaints Service and Solicitors Regulation Authority deliver further improvements to the users of their complaints handling services.

Full report [PDF 2,860 kb, 112 pages] PDF
Contents, foreword and executive summary [PDF 403 kb, 18 pages] PDF
Chapter 1 [PDF 256 kb, 6 pages] PDF
Chapter 2 [PDF 903 kb, 24 pages] PDF
Chapter 3 [PDF 205 kb, 6 pages] PDF
Chapter 4 [PDF 186 kb, 6 pages] PDF
Chapter 5 [PDF 256 kb, 8 pages] PDF
Financial Statement of OLSCC [PDF 381 kb, 20 pages] PDF
Appendices 1 to 5 [PDF 323 kb, 11 pages] PDF
Appendices 6 to 10 [PDF 151 kb, 13 pages] PDF

Press release [PDF 54 kb, 3 pages] PDF

Crynodeb Gweithredol

Comisiynydd Cwynion Gwasanaethau Cyfreithiol Adroddiad Gweinyddol a Chyfrifon 2006/2007 Swyddfa [PDF 5.6mb, 7 pages] PDF

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The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report and Accounts 2005-2006 -Actions Not Words

The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report and Accounts 2005-2006, Actions Not Words – Consumers matter, summarises the improvements made to the complaints handling arm of the Law Society since the Commissioner's appointment. The Report sets out, amongst other things, the areas where the Commissioner feels that progress has been made and where she believes that the Law Society could have taken more action to implement its improvement Plan and achieve its targets.

Download accessible version of the Annual Report and Accounts 2005-2006:

Contents & Commissioner's foreword [PDF 325 kb, 7 pages] PDF
Executive Summary [PDF 661 kb, 10 pages] PDF
Chapters 1-2 [PDF 575 kb, 26 pages] PDF
Chapters 3 [PDF 628 kb, 7 pages] PDF
Chapters 4-5 [PDF 352 kb, 12 pages] PDF
Chapter 6 [PDF 671 kb, 8 pages] PDF
Chapter 7 [PDF 282 kb, 5 pages] PDF
Chapter 8, Glossary & Annual accounts 2005-2006 (Appendices 1-11) [PDF 340 kb, 50 pages] PDF

Crynodeb Gweithredol o Adroddiad Blynyddol a Chyfrifon 2005-2006 [PDF 2.92mb, 12 pages] PDF

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The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Interim Report - Pushing for change

The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's interim report, 'Pushing for change' reports on the Law Society's complaints handling performance from April to September 2005, against targets set by the Commissioner. It is a command paper and was laid in parliament on 14 November 2005.

Full report [PDF 2,565kb, 35 pages]PDF
Chapter 1-2 [PDF 737kb, 13 pages]PDF
Chapter 3-4 [PDF 1776kb, 16 pages]PDF
Chapter 5-6 [PDF 191kb, 4pages]PDF
Appendix: Commissioner's targets for Law Society 2005-2006 [PDF 156kb, 3 pages] PDF

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The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report 2004-2005 - Law in Order: Your right to expect better

The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report 2004-2005, 'Law in order: Your right to expect better,' summarises the work the Commissioner has undertaken over the last twelve months to set up her office and improve the service being provided by the complaints handling arm of the Law Society.

You can download the full annual report (PDF 3.2Mb) PDF
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The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Summary Annual Report 2004-2005

The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Summary Annual Report 2004-2005 - 'Law in order: Your right to expect better,' (PDF 768 kb) PDF contains excerpts from the full Annual Report. This is also available in Welsh.

Cymraeg (PDF 3.85Mb) PDF

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