Roll of solicitors

Each year, we send an annual enquiry (KR1) to all solicitors without a practising certificate and ask whether they wish to keep their name on the roll of solicitors. The deadline for receipt of those annual enquiries was 2 June 2010.

Under section 5(b) and (c) of the Solicitors (Keeping of the Roll) Regulations 1999, we have now removed from the roll the name of any solicitor who has not asked for their name to be retained .

Who may stay on the roll?

Any solicitor who currently does not hold a practising certificate or an exemption from holding a practising certificate may stay on the roll.

The Solicitors Act 1974 requires practising solicitors to have a practising certificate. Subrule 20.01 of the Code of Conduct sets out what we regard as "practising".

Staying on the roll

Restoration to the roll

Removal from the roll