Legal Services Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 512: 512: Schedule 16, page 248, line 25, at end insert— ““(1) Section 43 (jurisdiction and powers of Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in relation to complaints against solicitors) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (2)(a) for ““(7) to”” substitute ““(9) to””. (3) After subsection (3) insert— ““(3A) Nothing in section 154 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (approved regulators not to make provision for redress) prevents an order being made under subsection (3).”” (4) For subsection (5) substitute— ““(5) An appeal under section 49 of the Solicitors Act 1974 against an order of the Tribunal under subsection (3) lies only at the instance of the solicitor with respect to whom the legal aid complaint was made.”””” On Question, amendment agreed to. [Amendment No. 512A not moved.]