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The legal needs of Small Businesses
Robert Cross
Research Manager
13 June 2018
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Overview
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• Context for the LSB
• Findings of the 2017 survey
• Implications for regulators
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Regulatory structure
Legal Ombudsman
Legal Services Board
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Legal duty to promote the regulatory objectives
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1. Protecting and promoting the public interest
2. Supporting the constitutional principle of the rule of law
3. Improving access to justice
4. Protecting and promoting the interests of consumers
5. Promoting competition in the provision of services
6. Encouraging an independent, strong, diverse and effective
legal profession
7. Increasing public understanding of the citizen’s legal rights and
duties
8. Promoting and maintaining adherence to the professional
principles
Source: LSA 2007
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Regulatory change 2010 onwards
5Legal Services Board Source: Part 3 LSA 2007, LSB website rule change applications
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Market segmentation 2011 onwards:
The types of consumer
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All consumers
1. Legally aided individuals
Ethnicity, Socio Economic group Income, Age
2. Privately paying individuals
Ethnicity, Socio Economic group Income, Age
3. Small Businesses FP/NFP, Size
4. Large Businesses FP/NFP, Size
5. Government Central, Local, Quasi
Assumed
increasing
sophistication
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Small Businesses in the UK
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History of LSB funded research in this area
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2017 - The legal needs of small
businesses 2013-2017, Turner &
BMG research, survey YouGov
2010 – LSB Regulatory Information
Review 2011 – Legal Advice for Small
Businesses - Qualitative research – AIA 2012 - A methodology for conducting
research into SMEs’ use of legal
services – Pleasence, Balmer,
Blackburn & Wainwright. 2013 - In Need of Advice? Findings of
a Small Business Legal Needs
Benchmarking Survey Pleasence &
Balmer, survey YouGov. 2015 - The legal needs of small
businesses - An analysis of small
businesses’ experience of legal
problems, capacity and attitudes,
Blackburn, Kitching, & Saridakis,
survey YouGov.
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Overview
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• Context for the LSB
• Findings of the 2017 survey
• Implications for regulation
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The LSB funded survey 2017
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Problem incidence
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Problems not uniformly experienced
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Large societal impacts
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Responses to problems
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‘Rational inaction’ but…
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Using advisors
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Finding advisors
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Views on law and lawyers (1)
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Views on law and lawyers (2)
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Overview
21Legal Services Board
• Context for the LSB
• Findings of the 2017 survey
• Implications for regulators
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Implications for regulators
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• “we have found that the legal services sector is not
working well for individual consumers and small
businesses. These consumers generally lack the
experience and information they need to find their way
around the legal services sector and to engage confidently
with providers. Consumers find it hard to make informed
choices because there is very little transparency about
price, service and quality”.
• Legal services market study Final Report 2016 –
Competition and Markets Authority
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