Explanatory Notes

Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

2015 CHAPTER 2

12 February 2015

Commentary on Sections

Part 3 – Courts and Tribunals

Civil proceedings relating to personal injury

Section 60: Inducements: interpretation

511.Section 60, subsection (1) lists both the regulators who are required to monitor and enforce the ban on offering inducements to potential claimants in respect of personal injury claims (including the General Council of the Bar, the Law Society and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) and those legal service providers to whom the ban would apply (“regulated persons”, namely barristers, legal executives, solicitors and alternative business structures). The Lord Chancellor has the power by regulation to extend to other regulators and regulated persons both the prohibition and the duty to monitor and enforce it. Subsection (2) provides relevant definitions.