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Neil Stevenson, SLCC Chief Executive, welcomed the appointments of a new Cabinet Secretary for Justice and a new Minister for Community Safety.

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has laid its budget for 2018-19 before the Scottish Parliament. The budget includes an increase on the legal profession’s levy of 8.5%.

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) wishes to appoint up to 3 legal firms to operate under a Framework Agreement for the provision of cost effective, responsive, flexible and high quality legal services, which help support proportionate and efficient dispensing of our statutory functions, for a 3 year period from September 2018.

The SLCC has demonstrated its commitment to action on climate change and joined WWF Scotland for the planet’s biggest environmental event.

The independent body for complaints about the legal profession has called for radical reform of the regulatory and complaints landscape in Scotland. The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) is encouraging the independent review of legal services regulation to set a clear single aim for future policy and legislative work: a new system that delivers better outcomes for consumers and the legal market.

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As part of its annual budget consultation, the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission - Scotland’s independent body for complaints about lawyers - has called on members of the public, and legal professionals, to join the discussion about who should pay for the increasing cost of complaints about lawyers. It is also consulting on how that funding should be arranged, following the Law Society of Scotland’s authorisation as an ‘Approved Regulator’ of new business models allowing non-solicitor ownership.

A new Chair and a new member of the SLCC board have been announced by the Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs, Annabella Ewing. Both individuals join the majority of non-lawyer members on the SLCC’s Board.

The Court of Session recently ruled in favour of the SLCC in refusing an application by a firm of solicitors for leave to appeal one of the Commission’s decisions. The application was unusual in that it came from a firm seeking leave to appeal a decision that a number of issues of complaint were accepted as eligible services complaints and were not frivolous, vexatious or totally without merit.

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the independent body for complaints about solicitors, advocates and commercial attorneys has published its Annual Report for its 2016-17 year.

The SLCC has published two new guides on wills and executries.

The SLCC has welcomed consultations by the Law Society of Scotland (LSS) on changes to its practice rules.