Legal Ombudsman names all firms subject to complaints

The Legal Ombudsman has today published its annual name-and-shame list, revealing it received complaints about 1,673 firms and individuals during the last financial year.

The LeO is empowered to publish information on decisions by the 2007 Legal Services Act and it aims to help raise standards across the legal sector.

Claims management companies

The list names all firms and individuals that were subject to an investigation, those where a remedy was required and details of that remedy. For the first time, it also published details of claims management companies subject to complaints.

Source: The Law Society Gazette

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