We value the views of our stakeholders. Any open consultations are listed below. For full details, or to find out how to participate, follow the links. If no open consultations are listed, please return at a later date or subscribe to SRA consultation alerts.
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Open consultations
Higher rights of audience
Participate in a consultation on proposed changes to the qualification requirements to enable solicitors to exercise their rights of audience before the higher courts of England and Wales.
- Start—2 May 2008
- End—25 July 2008
- Status—OPEN, respond now
Compensation fund
We are seeking views on proposed changes to the Compensation Fund Rules, including an increase in the maximum grant from £1 million to £2 million. We aim to get the new rules in place, including any process of concurrence and/or approval, by 1 March 2009.
- Start—25 April 2008
- End—6 June 2008 (responses to Question 2 accepted until 18 July)
- Status—OPEN, respond now
Draft SRA Practising Regulations [2009]
We invite you to comment on the Draft SRA Practising Regulations, which we hope to introduce in 2009. The draft regulations deal with practising certificates for solicitors and registration of European and foreign lawyers, authorisation of solicitors and European lawyers who are sole practitioners, and other processes.
- Start—11 April 2008
- End—9 June 2008
- Status—OPEN, respond now
