NS1 – Notice of succession

The historic turnover of a firm is used for the purposes of determining the firm's renewals fee, this fee is based on the figure that has been submitted to the SRA as part of the renewal process.

You should submit a notice of succession if

• your firm has succeeded to the whole or part of the practice of one or more firms and/or
• your firm has split or ceded part of the practice to another firm and wishes this change to be considered by the SRA when determining the firm's next renewal fee.

This is to enable the SRA to ensure that the turnover figure on which your renewal fee is based reflects the impact of the change.

The notice of succession must identify all firms affected by the succession and provide details of any resulting apportionment of the turnover figures for those firms.

If you are notifying us of successor turnover figures following a succession that took place on or after 1 November 2011:

Please use www.sra.org.uk/ns1 to link to this page.

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