https://www.slab.org.uk/corporate-information/what-we-do/monitoring-legal-services/
The Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 gave us the function of monitoring the availability and accessibility of legal services in Scotland, with reference to relevant factors relating to urban and rural areas.
We have arrangements in place to monitor legal services by:
The topics chosen for assessment under monitoring duty are based on identifying those areas of law which are either:
This is a new approach to how we monitor legal services. In 2017, our approach was updated to the model above, in order to ensure the maximum utility of our monitoring work.
Our methods in preparing the first five monitoring reports previously included consultation with a more broad-ranging, fixed group of stakeholders (the Access to Justice Reference Group) and took a more over-arching rather than targeted approach to identifying the areas of law for assessment.
File | Type | Size |
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2017 Fifth Monitoring Report | 1 MB | |
2012 First Monitoring Report | 1 MB | |
2013 Second Monitoring Report | 1 MB | |
2014 Third Monitoring Report | 1 MB | |
2015 Fourth Monitoring Report | 1 MB |
Please contact John Osborne, Policy Projects Manager, on 0131 240 1889 or by email, for more information about this work.