Legal Services Bill [HL]

At Second Reading, I said that it would be a nice idea to get the concept of ““light touch”” into the Bill. I think that I expressed my feelings about my own incompetence as regards how that could possibly be done. It seems to me that this is about as good a shot as you can have at expressing ““light touch””. There may be a slight difficulty with the words, "““must, so far as is reasonably practicable””." I can see that trouble could develop if the board had established a policy over a particular area or with one part of the profession and if adopting a different policy or some other bit of it was under discussion. There could be potential conflicts ahead where the board might say, ““We’re very sorry, it just isn’t practical. We’ve taken a position and that is how we are acting””. Having said that, I think that this is the best job that one can make of ““light touch””.