Today, for the third year running, the CLSB received top marks from the Legal Services Board in its latest assessment of the legal regulators’ performance. It was the only legal regulator assessed to be providing sufficient assurance against the three standards of Well-led, Effective Approach to Regulation and Operational Delivery. The LSB’s report said that the CLSB “has continued to demonstrate the good practice we highlighted in last year’s report. Its approach continues to exemplify a model of good practice for other smaller regulators within the sector.” The report described the CLSB’s Board as “engaged, transparent and well-governed” and the CLSB’s approach to regulation as “targeted and responsive”.
Rt Hon David Heath CBE, Chair of the CLSB Board, said “To be judged to be the top-performing Legal Regulator once was an achievement: to have done so three years running is really quite something, and all credit should go to our very small group of hard-working staff and our very committed and capable board. It shows that even in a small organisation you can get the basics right, understand the regulated community, and get results.”
