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Index

Rules and guidance are both indexed.

  • References to whole rules take the form "rule 1".
  • References to sections within a rule take the form "1.01" or "2.01(1)(a)".
  • References to guidance notes to the rules take the form "guid. 2 [1, 3, 5–6 ]".

A–Z

  • Data protection
    • business management and risk, guid. 5 [40]
    • client's rights, guid. 2 [11, 16]
    • publicity, guid. 7 [5(g), 29, 33]
  • Death
    • of client, confidentiality and, guid. 4 [4]
    • member or shareowner of company, 14.06(5)
  • Deceit
    • deceiving the court 11.01, guid. 11 [12–19]
    • undertaking procured by, guid. 10 [33]
  • Declarations, 10.03, guid. 10 [10]
  • Definitions, rule 24
  • Deposit interest
    • overseas practice, 15.15, guid. 15 [20]
  • Direct discrimination, guid. 6 [10(a)]
  • Direct marketing, guid. 7 [33]
  • Director
  • Disability discrimination, 6.01(1), (2), guid. 6 [3, 4, 7, 8, 10]
    • less favourable treatment, guid. 6 [10(e)]
    • reasonable adjustment, failure to make, 6.01(2), guid. 6 [3(b), 4, 10(f)]
  • Disability Discrimination Act 1995, guid. 6 [17, 19]
  • Disclosure, rule 4
    • book debts, guid. 4 [8(d)]
    • client, 4.02, guid. 4 [20–5]
    • client's address, guid. 4 [8(b)]
    • confidential information, guid. 4 [9–19]
    • conflicting duties, 4.03, guid. 4 [26–30]
    • conveyancing file, guid. 4 [8(c)]
    • duty of, 4.02
    • fee sharing, guid. 8 [14–17]
    • money laundering and, guid. 4 [10]
    • public interest, guid. 4 [11]
    • referrals of business, financial arrangements with introducers, 9.02(a), 9.02(e), 9.02(g), guid. 9 [6–9, 10]
    • to Solicitors Regulation Authority, 20.08, guid. 20 [28, 33, 34, 38, 42–4]
    • statutory, guid. 4 [9–11, 14, 16]
    • under Freedom of Information Act 2000, guid. 4 [11]
  • Discrimination
  • Documents
    • meaning, 24.01
    • production to Solicitors Regulation Authority, 20.08
    • safekeeping, 5.01(1)(g), guid. 5 [22–23]
    • sent subject to condition, guid. 10 [6]
    • to be held to order, guid. 10 [6]
    • request by lender, guid. 4 [8(c)]
    • on ceasing to act, guid. 2 [11]
    • request for copy documents, guid. 10 [6]
    • production to SRA, 20.08, guid. 20 [42 – 44]
  • Duress, 2.01(d), guid. 2 [6(c)]
  • E-commerce, guid. 7 [16–24]
  • E-mail, guid. 7 [20–1], 25.01(7)
    • direct marketing, guid. 7 [33]
    • promotional material, guid. 7 [19]
    • unsolicited, guid. 7 [22]
    • "Either way" services, 21.04
  • Embarrassment
  • Employed solicitors seeIn-house practice
  • Employee
    • acting for work colleagues, 13.02
    • equality and diversity and, guid. 6 [20], 6.01
    • meaning, 24.01
  • Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, guid. 6 [17, 19]
  • Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, guid. 6 [17, 19]
  • Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003, guid. 6 [17, 19]
  • Equal Pay Act 1970, guid. 6 [8]
  • Equality and diversity, rule 6
    • accepting instructions and 6.01, guid. 6 [14]
    • discrimination seeDiscrimination
    • employees, 6.01, guid. 6 [20]
    • Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, guid. 6 [17, 19]
    • Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, guid. 6 [17, 19]
    • Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003, guid. 6 [17, 19]
    • Equal Pay Act 1970, guid. 6 [8]
    • evidence of breach, 6.02, guid. 6 [21]
    • Genuine Occupational Qualifications (GOQs), guid. 6 [12]
    • Genuine Occupational Requirements (GORs), guid. 6 [12]
    • Human Rights Act 1998, guid. 6 [5(c)]
    • in-house practice, 6.04, guid. 6 [23–6]
    • indirect discrimination, guid. 6 [10(b)]
    • instructing barristers, 6.01, guid. 6 [15–17]
    • instructing contractors, agents and third parties, 6.01, guid. 6 [18]
    • meaning of terms, 6.06
    • overseas practice, 15.06, guid. 15 [13]
    • policy 6.03, guid. 6 [22]
    • Race Relations Act 1976, guid. 6 [17, 19]
    • Sex Discrimination Act 1975, guid. 6 [10(c), 17, 19]
    • waivers, 6.05, 22.01(2)(d)
  • Established clients, 3.09(a), guid. 3 [74]
  • Estate agency by solicitors
  • Estate agents
    • fee sharing with, 8.01(g), guid. 18 [6]
  • Ethnicity
  • European corporate practice
  • European cross-border practice, rule 16
    • application of rule, 16.01(2)
    • definition, 16.01
    • fee sharing with non-lawyers, guid. 8 [18], 16.03, guid. 16 [5–7]
    • incompatible occupations, 16.02, guid. 16 [3–4]
    • lawyers in different member states
    • non-lawyers
    • overseas practice and, 15.16, guid. 15 [21–2]
    • states and legal professions, guid. 16 [1–2]
  • Executor company, guid. 14 [27–8], 21.02(1)(g), 21.04(1)(i), guid. 21 [11–12]
  • Fee earner
    • leaving firm, guid. 7 [47], guid. 2 [20]
  • Fee sharing. rule 8
    • best interests of client, guid. 8 [7, 13]
    • with charities 8.01(h), guid. 8 [4–18]
    • core duties, guid. 8 [7, 13]
    • disclosure to clients, guid. 8 [14, 15]
    • disclosure to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, 8.01(h)(ii), 8.02(1)(d), guid. 8 [16, 17]
    • estate agents, 8.01(g), guid. 18 [6]
    • European cross-border practice, guid. 8 [18], 16.03, guid. 16 [5–7]
    • independence, guid. 1 [7], guid . 8 [Introduction, 2, 7, 13]
    • with lawyers and colleagues, 8.01
    • limit on, guid . 8 [13]
    • meaning, guid. 8 [1]
    • with other non-lawyers, 8.02, guid. 8 [4–18]
      • European cross-border practice, guid. 8 [18], 16.03, guid. 16 [5–7]
      • examples of arrangements, guid. 8 [12]
    • overseas practice, guid. 8 [3], 15.08, guid. 15 [15]
    • partnership, guid. 8 [9]
    • public interest, guid. 8 [6]
    • referrals of business, 8.02(1)(e), guid. 8 [8]
    • risk assessment, guid. 8 [13]
  • Fees, 11.04(2)(b), guid. 11 [23]
  • Fellow employees, seeWork colleagues
  • Financial difficulty
    • reporting serious financial difficulty, 20.06, guid. 20 [33–9]
  • Financial promotions, guid. 7 [24, 31–2]
  • Financial services, rule 19
  • Financial Services Authority, guid. 19 [2]
  • Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, 19.01(4), guid. 19 [2, 3], guid. 20 [9]
  • Firm
  • Foreign law firms
  • Foreign lawyer
  • Framework of practice, rule 12
    • overseas practice, 15.12, guid. 15 [17]
  • Fraud
    • undertaking procured by, guid. 10 [33]
  • Freedom of Information Act 2000, guid. 4 [11]
  • Gender
  • Gender reassignment
  • Genuine Occupational Qualifications (GOQs)
    • discrimination and, guid. 6 [12]
  • Genuine Occupational Requirements (GORs)
    • discrimination and, guid. 6 [12]
  • Gifts
  • Guidance to the rules
  • Harassment
  • Home Information Packs,
    • property selling requirements, 18.01(2), guid. 18 [11(g), 12]
    • through separate business, guid. 21 [1]
    • who is the client, guid. 2 [3]
  • Housing Act 2004, 18.01 (2),(3), guid. 18 [11, 12]
  • Human Rights Act 1998, guid. 6 [5(c)]
  • Justice and the rule of law
  • Law centres
    • in-house practice, 13.09
  • Law costs draftsman
    • legal disciplinary practice, guid. 12 [2]
  • Lawyer
  • Lawyer of England and Wales
  • Lender and borrower
  • Letterhead, 25.01(7)
  • Letter before action, guid. 10 [5]
  • Licensed conveyancer
    • legal disciplinary practice, guid. 12 [2]
  • Lien, 2.03(1)(e), guid. 2 [2, 11, 32]
  • Limitation of civil liability by contract, 2.07, guid. 2 [64–72]
  • Limited liability partnerships
  • Litigation
    • client
      • best interests of, guid. 11 [5, 18]
      • deceiving the court/perjury, guid. 11 [14–16]
      • inconsistent statements by, guid. 11 [17]
    • court
      • attending advocates, guid. 11 [9–10]
      • contempt of court, 11.03, guid. 11 [21]
      • court orders, 11.02, guid. 11 [20]
      • deceiving/misleading the court, 11.01, guid. 11 [12–19]
      • disclosing information to the court, guid. 4 [14, 15], guid. 11 [5, 11–18]
      • duty to, guid. 1 [5], 11.01–11.03, guid. 11 [6]
      • judges, communicating with, guid. 11 [7]
      • officer seeOfficer of the court
      • registered European lawyers, guid. 11 [2]
      • registered foreign lawyers, guid. 11 [3]
      • statements to the media, guid. 11 [11]
      • witnesses seeWitnesses
    • overseas practice. 15.11
    • see alsoAdvocacy
  • Local government
    • in-house practice, 13.08
  • Mailshots, guid. 7 [29]
  • Management
  • Manager
  • Marital status
  • Marketing
    • British Code of Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing guid. 7 [6]
    • separate business, guid. 21 [16]
    • see alsoAdvertising; Publicity
  • Master of the Rolls
  • Maternity
  • Media
    • statements to, guid. 11 [11]
  • Member
  • Misconduct
    • reporting serious misconduct, 20.06, guid. 20 [33–9]
  • Misrepresentation
    • undertaking procured by, guid. 10 [33]
  • Money
    • sent subject to condition, guid. 10 [6]
    • to be held to order, guid. 10 [6]
  • Money laundering
    • compliance with regulations, 5.01(1)(b), guid. 5 [14]
    • confidentiality and, guid. 4 [10]
  • Third parties, relations with, rule 10
    • administering oaths, 10.03, guid. 10 [9–13]
    • agreeing costs with another party, 10.02, guid. 10 [7–8]
    • behaviour outside legal practice and, guid. 10 [1, 4]
    • contacting other party to a matter, 10.04, guid. 10 [14–23]
    • dealing with more than one prospective buyer, 10.06, guid. 10 [42–5]
    • demands not legally recoverable, guid. 10 [5]
    • duties, guid. 1 [5]
    • fairness, 10.01, guid. 10 [1–6]
    • fees of lawyers of other jurisdictions, 10.07, guid. 10 [46–8]
      • European cross-border practice and, guid. 10 [48], 16.06, guid. 16 [14]
    • legal representation, dealing with person without, guid. 10 [2–3]
    • oaths, administering, 10.03, guid. 10 [9–13]
    • overseas practice, 15.10
    • personal interests, guid. 10 [4]
    • undertakings seeUndertakings
    • unfair advantage, not taking, 10.01, guid. 10 [1–6], 23.02, 23 [6]
  • Trade mark agent
    • legal disciplinary practice, guid. 12 [2]
  • Trading debts, guid. 10 [25]
  • Trust instrument
    • limitation of civil liability, guid. 2 [66–7]
  • Trustee company, guid. 14 [27–8], 21.02(1)(g), 21.04(1)(i), guid. 21 [11–12]
  • Ultimate beneficial owners
  • Undertakings, 10.05, guid. 10 [24–41]
    • ambiguous, guid. 10 [34]
    • on behalf of client, guid. 10 [35]
    • breach, guid. 10 [37]
    • dependent upon future event, 10.05(3)
    • discharge, 10.05(4)
    • enforcement, guid. 10 [31]
    • failure to fulfil, guid. 10 [29]
    • indemnity insurance, guid. 10 [37]
    • irrevocable instructions, guid . 10 [39]
    • meaning, 24.01, guid. 10 [24]
    • no obligation to give or accept, guid. 10 [26]
    • oral, guid. 10 [24]
    • outside control of giver, guid. 10 [38]
    • outside course of practice, 10.05(1)(c)
    • overseas practice, 15.10(2), guid. 15 [16]
    • to pay another's costs, 10.05(4), guid. 10 [32]
    • "person within the firm", 10.05(1)(b)
      • meaning, guid. 10 [27]
    • procured by fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, guid. 10 [33]
    • promise to give undertaking, guid. 10 [36]
    • reasonable time, guid. 10 [28]
    • registered European Lawyer, 10.05(1)(d)
    • Solicitors Regulation Authority, guid. 10 [30–1, 33–4]
    • standard, guid. 10 [40]
    • trading debts, guid. 10 [25]
  • Undue influence, 2.01(d), guid . 2 [6(c)]
  • Unfair advantage, 10.01, guid . 10 [1-5], guid .2 [1]
  • Victimisation
  • Virtual office
    • supervision, guid . 5 [48]
  • Voting rights