The Assize

The other regulated legal professions of England and Wales, on one footing

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Conduct of litigation

Issuing, prosecuting or defending proceedings, and the formal steps in them.

A reserved legal activity under section 12 of, and schedule 2 to, the Legal Services Act 2007. Carrying it on while neither authorised nor exempt is an offence under section 14.

Authorised, and counted here

4,713 practitioners in the professions this site collects a register for may carry this on.

Also authorised

These professions may carry it on too. Their registers are not this site’s: see every profession.