SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Details of participating insurer
This rule is in addition to any obligations imposed on the authorised body under the Provision of Services Regulations 2009. If a claimant asserts a claim against an authorised body or any person insured under that authorised body's policy, and the claim relates to any matter within the scope of cover of the MTC, the authorised body, and any person who is at the relevant time a principal in...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
Power to require contributions
Solicitors, RELs, RSLs, RFLs, recognised bodies and licensed bodies must make contributions to the Indemnity Fund in such amounts and at such times as may be prescribed. Deleted The SRA may at any time, to the extent that it is reasonably practicable for it to do so, recalculate any claims adjustment applicable to any practice under the Solicitors' Indemnity Rules 2012 (or any earlier...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Applications to the tribunal
An authorised decision maker may decide to make an application to the Tribunal in respect of a firm or an individual under rule 3.1(g) only where they are satisfied that: there is a realistic prospect of the Tribunal making an order in respect of the allegation; and it is in the public interest to make the application. Where an authorised decision maker has made an application to the Tribunal,...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Applications for termination of certain orders
Where a person has been: disqualified from acting as a HOLP or HOFA, or a manager or employee of a body licensed under the LSA; made subject by the SRA to an order under section 43(2) of the SA; or made subject by the SRA to an order suspending their practising certificate or registration in the register of European lawyers, the register of foreign lawyers, or the register of Swiss lawyers,...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Disclosure and publication
The SRA may disclose or publish any information arising from or relating to an investigation, either in an individual case or a class of case, where it considers it to be in the public interest to do so. The SRA shall publish any decision under rule 3.1 or 3.2, when the decision takes effect or at such later date as it may consider appropriate, unless it considers the particular circumstances...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Consideration by authorised decision makers
On finding that an allegation is proved (save for sub-paragraph (g)), an authorised decision maker may decide as appropriate in respect of a relevant person to: give a written rebuke, in accordance with section 44D(2)(a) of the SA or paragraph 14B(2)(a), Schedule 2 to the AJA; subject to rule 3.6, direct the payment of a financial penalty in accordance with section 44D(2)(b) of the SA,...
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SRA Overseas and Cross-border Practice Rules
Dealings with client money
In all dealings you have with client money (overseas) you must: safeguard client money and assets entrusted to you; keep client money (overseas), separate from money which belongs to you; on receipt, pay client money (overseas) promptly into, and hold it in, an overseas client account, unless: to do so would conflict with your obligations under local law or regulation or with any obligation...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Management, control, and supervision
Subject to rules 9.2 and 9.3, an authorised body must ensure that the SRA has approved any manager or owner of the authorised body under Part 4. A sole principal whose practice has been authorised as a recognised sole practice is not required to be approved separately as a manager of that practice. If the SRA is satisfied that a manager of an authorised body is not involved in any of the...
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