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About the Commission

The Legal Services Commission is an independent statutory body which first 'opened for business' when the Legal Profession Act 2004 commenced on 1 July 2004. The Act was repealed on 1 July 2007 and replaced by the Legal Profession Act 2007 which gave us all the same and some additional powers and responsibilities.

Our core business is to receive and deal with complaints about lawyers; commence investigations on our own initiative when we suspect lawyers have acted improperly; audit incorporated legal practices to help them develop and maintain ethical workplace cultures, initiate disciplinary or other regulatory action as appropriate; communicate what we learn as we go about our work, contribute to related policy discussion and undertake projects and research.

We see our most fundamental purposes to be to protect the rights of legal consumers and promote high standards of conduct in the delivery of legal services.

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You might be interested to learn something about the history of reforms to the regulation of the delivery of legal services in Queensland. There are a number of useful publications which describe that history including events leading up to the creation of the Commission in 2004, in particular:


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See also:

Legal Profession Act 2007

Queensland Law Society website

Legal Aid Queensland website

QPILCH (Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House)

Bar Association of Queensland website

Crime and Misconduct Commission website