Ministry of Justice

Legal services reform: baseline survey

Date: 01 March 2010

three people sat around a desk

A survey of consumers' experiences of using legal services for personal matters in England and Wales before the full implementation of the Legal Services Act 2007.

by Steven Finch, Chris Ferguson, Nicholas Gilby and Natalie Low


The report contains baseline measures of consumer confidence in legal services, the standards of service they received, their experience of problems and their knowledge of how to complain. It shows that users were generally content with services, although there was some scope for improvement.

The report also suggests that there is scope for further competition in the legal services market.