Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions has the decision of the Legal Ombudsman been overturned as a result of a review in each of the last five years.

Legal Ombudsman decisions can be challenged by way of judicial review.

Of the 18,076 ombudsman decisions that the Legal Ombudsman made in the past five years, only 16 cases have been reconsidered as a result of judicial review. Of these, four were reconsidered as a result of a contested hearing and 12 were agreed by consent between parties before the matter went to trial.

The breakdown is as follows:

• 2017 – 3,370 decisions, 1 reconsidered (by consent)
• 2016 – 4,337 decisions, 2 reconsidered (both by consent)
• 2015 – 3,475 decisions, 4 reconsidered (all by consent)
• 2014 – 3,409 decisions, 6 reconsidered (two by court order, four by consent)
• 2013 – 3,485 decisions, 3 reconsidered (two by court order, one by consent)