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Staff focus group participant “It should create expectations that stakeholder organisations hold us accountable for. I think it’s quite important that there are expectations of the Charter because it creates accountability as well.”
The Scottish Government expects to lay commencement regulations in early May 2022 that will bring into force the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 this summer.
The Scotland Act 1998 requires me to lay before Parliament the commission’s report and a draft order in council giving effect to the commission’s recommendations.
The other duties that are set out in amendment 42 are to prepare interim accounts that would, in particular, detail all sums held on behalf of clients, and to send a copy of those accounts to the Law Society.