Schedule 2, Part 2, paragraph 14

A contract for the provision of exempt legal services to a contracting authority. The following services are “exempt legal services”— legal representation by a lawyer in judicial proceedings or other dispute resolution proceedings, whether in or outside the United Kingdom; the giving of legal advice by a lawyer in connection with, or in contemplation of, any such proceedings; document certification or authentication services provided by a notary in circumstances where the certification or authentication is required under an enactment or other rule of law to be performed by a notary; legal services provided by a person required to provide them under an enactment or an order of a court or tribunal. In this paragraph— “judicial proceedings” includes proceedings before a court, tribunal or public authority; “lawyer” means— a person who is an authorised person or an exempt person in relation to a reserved legal activity for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007 (see sections 18 and 19 of that Act); a solicitor or advocate in Scotland; a solicitor or barrister in Northern Ireland; a person who is a member, and entitled to practise as such, of a legal profession regulated in a jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom; “other dispute resolution proceedings” includes arbitration, mediation and conciliation.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04