Holding by ESOT

Legal & General Group PLC
21 June 2002



Legal & General Group Plc (the 'Company')


The Company today announces that the trustees of the Legal & General Employee
Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) have made the following purchase of Legal & General
ordinary shares of 2.5p each:


   TRADE DATE                  SHARES PURCHASED                  PRICE PER SHARE
  20 June 2002                      200,000                           126.75p



These shares were acquired to satisfy needs arising under existing employee
share schemes in which employees and executive directors participate.



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