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Article 73B Communications made by legal professionals

(1) The financial promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which relates to a controlled claims management activity when that communication is made in England and Wales by -

(a) a legal practitioner;

(b) a firm, organisation or body corporate that carries on the controlled claims management activity through a legal practitioner; or

(c) an individual who carries on the controlled claims management activity at the direction of, and under the supervision of, a legal practitioner who is -

(i) that individual’s employer or fellow employee; or

(ii) a director of a company, or a member of a limited liability partnership, that provides the service and is that individual’s employer.

(2) In paragraph (1) "legal practitioner" means -

(a) a solicitor or barrister of any part of England and Wales or Northern Ireland;

(b) a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives;

(c) a European lawyer, as defined in the European Communities (Services of Lawyers) Order 1978 [S.I. 1

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