Regulation of Legal Executives

ILEX Professional Standards Limited (IPS), is the new regulatory arm of the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) and began its new role with effect from the beginning of October 2008.

The creation of IPS marks a key formal stage in the separation of the regulation and leadership functions of ILEX. In this way ILEX will comply with its responsibilities as an approved regulator under the Legal Services Act 2007.

IPS will regulate all 24,000 students, members and Fellows of ILEX to give the public full confidence in the role of legal executives within the legal profession: to serve the public interest and protect consumers of legal services.

IPS also provides authoritative guidance and rules of conduct, to help legal executives to meet the standards expected of them. IPS will, where necessary, investigate concerns about legal executives’ standards of practice and their compliance with the rules, taking action if an individual’s fitness to practice is in doubt.

A stand-alone website will be created for IPS during 2009, but in the meantime this section of the ILEX website will contain news and information on IPS's work, activities and responsibilities.