What works to promote and maintain competitiveness within the legal services market and ensure individuals can access quality services at a fair and accessible price, whilst growing the sector overall?

Background

We want to create the conditions for the UK’s legal services sector to flourish by developing a sustainable, efficient and effective system. This includes securing legal services market access overseas, growing the UK’s market share, and enhancing the international competitiveness and attractiveness of the legal sector.

Next steps

We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Areas of research interest

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