Client Protection Sub-Committee

Welcome

Our mission is to continually evolve and adapt to ensure that we represent, reflect and regulate a thriving and evolving Scottish solicitor profession.

We are the professional body and regulator of Scottish solicitors, setting and enforcing standards for a profession that helps people in need and acting in the public interest. We support our hard-working and increasingly diverse membership and provide a voice that represents the legal sector and wider society when we speak on the rule of law, access to justice and human rights.

After 10 years of campaigning for change we now have new legislation which updates and modernises legal services regulation in Scotland. The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 will give us new powers to ensure that the legal profession retains its long-held reputation for excellence, while allowing us to improve and speed up our complaints processes and enhance consumer protections to ensure continued confidence in Scotland’s solicitor profession and wider legal sector.

The Law Society’s Regulatory Committee and its sub-committees sit at the heart of this important work, with our Client Protection Sub-Committee playing a crucial role in ensuring legal services consumers are afforded robust protections.

The committee oversees the Law Society’s Client Protection Fund, which exists to protect clients who have lost money because of the dishonesty of a solicitor or a member of their staff. It is a fund of last resort and is paid for entirely by solicitor firms, without any use of taxpayer money from government.

The Client Protection Sub-Committee brings together both solicitors and lay members from a variety of backgrounds, who share their knowledge and experience to ensure good decision-making and that we fulfil our statutory obligations in relation to the Client Protection Fund.

The collective expertise of our committee members is one of the Law Society’s greatest strengths. Their contributions are key to the work we do both for our members and the many thousands of people who depend on Scottish solicitors to resolve their legal issues.

I do hope you consider applying to join our Client Protection Sub-Committee.

Ben Kemp

Chief Executive Officer

Law Society of Scotland