193.This section inserts new section 51A into the 2007 Act. That section enables the Law Society and other regulators of legal services to disclose information about complaints that they are investigating but only if they consider it to be in the public interest. The information may reveal the identity of any practitioner or firm to whom the complaint relates, but it may only reveal the identity of the complainer with the complainer’s consent.
Background Part 3 - Complaints Section 75 – Power to disclose information about complaints: relevant professional organisations