NLJ this week: Commercial success or committing an offence―the boundaries of reserved legal activities

While the general public think lawyers and legal services are regulated, a large number of providers are not? So where are the boundaries, and how do you know when they’ve been crossed?

‘With increasing numbers of non-regulated providers, the boundaries of what they can and cannot do are ever more important,’ says Gould.

‘Yet these boundaries are not impenetrable barriers, but rather a zone of jeopardy within which an unauthorised entrant may either find that they can enjoy commercial success, or else be guilty of a criminal offence.’

In this article, Gould looks at the definitions, the issues at stake and the case for modernisation.