Regulation of Legal Executives

ILEX Professional Standards (IPS) regulates members of the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX).  It oversees the education, qualification and practice standards of Legal Executives and other ILEX members and ensures they maintain proper standards of professional and personal conduct.  IPS embodies the principle that legal professional bodies like ILEX should separate their regulatory and leadership functions so that clients and the public can have confidence in their legal advisors.

IPS works with ILEX to ensure ILEX qualifications are at the right level and are appropriate to the work ILEX members carry out.  IPS also aims to ensure members are fully aware of their obligations to clients, colleagues, the courts and the public.  When necessary, IPS deals with complaints against ILEX members.

IPS has an independent board of directors. 4 members of the Board are non-lawyers with no connection to the legal profession and 3 are professional members who are Legal Executives. The chair of the board is an independent member, Alan Kershaw.

The IPS web-site at http://www.ilexstandards.org.uk/ includes the Code of Conduct and Guides to Good Practice, which ILEX members are required to follow, and information about how IPS deals with complaints.  You can also check whether an ILEX member has had an order made against them for misconduct.

You can find out more about IPS here.

ILEX members can find information relevant to them here.

Consumers can find out about what ILEX members can do and how to complain if things go wrong here.

Employers of ILEX members can find relevant information here.