We produce parliamentary briefings to raise awareness of issues affecting the legal profession and to campaign for changes to the law. View our latest briefings below.
This briefing has been prepared by the Society's specialist committees: part one by the Planning and Environmental Law Committee, and part two by the Employment Law, Company Law and Tax Law Committees.
The Law Society welcomes the provisions in the Crime and Courts Bill, the vast majority of which will create a more efficient justice system.
This briefing, prepared by members of the Society's specialist committees provides a summary of the Law Society's concerns with aspects of the Bill.
The Society has expressed its opposition to the extension of closed material proceedings to ordinary civil cases in its briefing for peers ahead of the bill's report stage on Monday 12 November.
This briefing is concerned with the implications of the bill for the effective functioning of employment tribunals, and the impact on the parties who engage with the tribunal process.
This briefing sets out how you can lobby your MP to raise concerns about the removal of conveyancers from the lender panels of major banks.
In our evidence to the joint committee on the draft Communications Data bill, we have stressed the need for a review into how surveillance powers in the UK are exercised.
The Justice and Security Bill is the product of the Green Paper on Justice and Security.
While the majority of the Bill's provisions will lead to a clearer, more proportionate defamation regime, the Society has serious concerns regarding one key proposal.
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill provides for reform in a number of different areas including green investment, employment, competition, directors’ remuneration and copyright.
Richard Messingham (Head of Government and Parliamentary Affairs) 020 7320 5858 richard.messingham@lawsociety.org.uk
Richard Heinrich (Assistant Government and Parliamentary Affairs adviser) 020 7316 5527richard.heinrich@lawsociety.org.uk