The Legal Services Regulatory Authority’s third Strategic Plan sets out its priorities and goals for the regulation of the legal services sector until 2025.
The Strategic Plan is informed by research, consultation and engagement with external stakeholder organisations and individuals and also with staff. It re-affirms the organisation’s commitment to its mission and values and contains a renewed vision for the three year period of the plan. The Authority reflected on how best it can continue its work to regulate the provision of legal services by legal practitioners and ensure the maintenance and improvement of standards in the provision of legal services in the State.
The LSRA was established in 2016 and this is the third strategy period since its establishment. The plan was submitted to Minister for Justice in accordance with section 20 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015.
Three new and challenging Strategic Priorities are identified in the plan that build momentum and capture the focus of the LSRA’s work over the next three years. These are:
- Enhance Operational Efficiency and Service Delivery: We will enhance operational efficiency to deliver our core regulatory operations and services effectively and independently and to identified and benchmarked standards.
- Promote Professional Standards and Encourage Innovation: We will promote professional standards and encourage innovation and advancement in education and training, legal practice business models, admission to the legal professions, access to justice and consumer protection.
- Increase Awareness through Communication and Engagement: We will improve awareness of the LSRA’s regulatory activities and services as well as other issues relevant to the legal services sector through enhanced communications and engagement with the public, legal practitioners and other stakeholders.
The LSRA Strategic Plan 2022-2025 is available in English here and Irish here.