OLC publishes 2025/26 Business Plan for the Legal Ombudsman 09/04/2025 Office for Legal Complaints publishes 2025/26 Business Plan for the Legal Ombudsman
Ruling that an offer is reasonable 26/03/2024 The ombudsman decision is that the offer for compensation, made by the solicitor, is reasonable. Tagged: Our rules
OLC publishes 2023/24 Budget, Business Plan and Interim Strategy 14/05/2024 The Office for Legal Complaints has published its Business Plan and Budget for 2023/24 for the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), together with an interim strategy for 2023-24.
Investigating your complaint 26/03/2024 In this section we will tell you more about how we investigate your complaints. Tagged: investigating complaints factsheets Resolving complaints
Data centre 11/02/2025 Data about organisational performance, complaints and ombudsman decisions. Tagged: Data centre Peformance data Complaints data decision data Research and reports
Best practice complaint handling guide 26/03/2024 The aim of this guide is to help you improve the overall service you provide to your customers. By sharing best practice with you, we hope you will be able to reduce the number of complaints that are escalated to the Legal Ombudsman and improve service standards across the profession. Tagged: Signposting complaint handling best practice scheme rules language responding to complaints final response remedies
Who We Are 13/05/2024 Our job is to help resolve disputes between consumers and legal service providers. We are independent and impartial and base our assessment on the evidence provided. We aim to reach a resolution that is fair and that works for everyone involved. We help consumers to resolve complaints. We also help legal service providers to better understand such complaints, so they don’t happen again. Tagged: Office for Legal Complaints OLC Legal Ombudsman Scheme How we work
OLC Board update 26/03/2024 Elisabeth Davies, Chair of the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC), provides an update on the OLC's board meeting. Tagged: Office for Legal Complaints Board blog
Consultation: Business Plan and Budget 2021/22 26/03/2024 Consultation on the Office for Legal Complaints Business Plan and Budget 2021/22 Tagged: Consultation Office for Legal Complaints strategy and business plan governance
How We Work 26/03/2024 Every year we help resolve thousands of complaints about the legal service from consumers who are unhappy with their legal service provider. Tagged: common complaints Scheme Rules governance case studies Consumers Ombudsman regulated firms
OLC Annual Report and Accounts published 26/03/2024 The Office for Legal Complaints has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2020/21. This report covers the year from April 2020 to March 2021. Tagged: Annual Report Press release
Blog by Elisabeth Davies, Chair of the OLC 26/03/2024 This article is part of LeO News, edition 24. Tagged: Newsletter Board blog Office for Legal Complaints
Chief Ombudsman's introduction: a step change and an evolution 14/05/2024 The Office for Legal Complaints’ latest Annual Report and Accounts, published this week, highlights the step-change LeO has made in 2022/23. As we commit to staying the course in improving our service, we’re also looking ahead to the LeO of the future. Tagged: LeO News Annual Report Strategy
Blog by Elisabeth Davies, Chair of the OLC 26/03/2024 Elisabeth Davies, Chair of the OLC, provides an update on the Legal Ombudsman's 21/22 Business Plan Tagged: Board blog Newsletter Office for Legal Complaints
