Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010: 2010 asp 16

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Scotland Scottish Parliament

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TSO (The Stationery Office)

Royal assent, 9th November 2010. An Act of the Scottish Parliament to allow and to make provision for regulating the supply of certain legal services by licensed entities; to extend rights to obtain confirmation to the estates of deceased persons; to regulate will and other testamentary writing by non-lawyers; to make provision concerning the Law Society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates and for the professional arrangements to which solicitors and advocates are subject; to allow court rules to permit the making of oral submissions by lay representatives in civil cases. Explanatory notes to assist in the understanding of this Act are are available separately as ASP 16-EN (ISBN 9780105911494).