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 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
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
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
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
OLC consults on 2026/27 Business Plan and Budget for LeO 04/11/2025 OLC consults on 2026/27 Business Plan and Budget against backdrop of ‘unprecedented increase’ in complaints to LeO
Technical advice desk 26/03/2024 Advice line for technical queries from service providers Tagged: How we work Our approach Scheme Rules FAQs case studies LeO process complaint handling advice
OLC and Legal Ombudsman Annual Report published 26/03/2024 OLC and Legal Ombudsman Annual Report published Tagged: Annual Report Office for Legal Complaints
Legal Ombudsman Chair in Pride Power List 2018 26/03/2024 Legal Ombudsman Chair in Pride Power List 2018 Tagged: Office for Legal Complaints
Legal Ombudsman 2017-18 Annual Report published 26/03/2024 Legal Ombudsman 2017-18 Annual Report published Tagged: Annual Report Office for Legal Complaints
Appointment of three new non-executive directors welcomed 26/03/2024 Appointment of three new non-executive directors welcomed Tagged: Office for Legal Complaints
Our organisation 17/11/2025 This page shows the members of the Office for Legal Complaints, the Executive team of the Legal Ombudsman and the Ombudsman team. Tagged: Board Ombudsman Executive Team Chief Ombudsman Chief Operating Officer Ombudsman team meet the team
Legal Ombudsman welcomes new OLC board chair 26/03/2024 Legal Ombudsman welcomes new OLC board chair Tagged: Press release Office for Legal Complaints
Ensuring people contact us at the right time 26/03/2024 We’ve made changes to help ensure people contact us at the right time – once their legal service provider has had a chance to look into their complaint. This includes launching a new leaflet that service providers can send. Tagged: Improvements Premature complaints consumer journey Customer journey
