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Legal Ombudsman
The Legal Ombudsman is an ombudsman service that opened in October 2010. It is a free service that investigates complaints about lawyers in England and Wales. The Legal Ombudsman was set up as a result of the Legal Services Act 2007 and took over from the Legal Complaints Service and other legal complaint-handling bodies. The current Chief Executive is Rob Powell, who replaced Nick Hawkins in October 2017. The current Chief Ombudsman is Rebecca Marsh, who replaced Kathryn Stone OBE in January 2018. The Legal Ombudsman is a
Rachnilda (Nilda) J.A. Arduin, who has been ombudsman of the country since its inception.
Cases Case 2013/1: Criminal Code.
A complete recast of the Criminal Code was approved in 2012 and the ombudsman requested evaluation of the Act in January 2013. As this was the first case of the court, in its decision (ECLI:NL:OCHM:2013:1) it first laid down certain points of departure regarding its evaluation consisting of 5 points:
- The court needs to evaluate acts only on those points about which the