# Procurement Act 2023, Paragraph 14: Legal services

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A contract for the provision of exempt legal services to a contracting authority.
(2) The following services are “exempt legal services”—
(a) legal representation by a lawyer in judicial proceedings or other dispute resolution proceedings, whether in or outside the United Kingdom;
(b) the giving of legal advice by a lawyer in connection with, or in contemplation of, any such proceedings;
(c) 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;
(d) legal services provided by a person required to provide them under an enactment or an order of a court or tribunal.
(3) In this paragraph—
“judicial proceedings” includes proceedings before a court, tribunal or public authority;
“lawyer” means—
(a)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);
(b)a solicitor or advocate in Scotland;
(c)a solicitor or barrister in Northern Ireland;
(d)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.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/schedule/2/paragraph/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-14
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.