Commentary on Sections Part 1: the Regulatory Objectives Section 1: The regulatory objectives
27.This section sets out the eight regulatory objectives that the Board, the approved regulators and the OLC will be under a duty to observe when exercising their functions. These include promoting and maintaining adherence to the professional principles by those authorised to carry on reserved legal activities.
28.The Act does not rank these objectives and principles in order of importance. The Legal Services Board, the Office for Legal Complaints and the approved regulators will be best placed to consider how competing objectives are to be balanced in a particular instance. Section 3 sets out the Board’s responsibilities in relation to the regulatory objectives. Sections 28 and 116 do the same in respect of the approved regulators and the Office for Legal Complaints.