Regulatory framework
Qualification
- Training Regulations 1990 (PDF 136K)
- Qualified Lawyers Transfer Regulations 1990 (PDF 131K)
- Solicitors Admission Regulations 1994 (PDF 31K)
- Solicitors (Keeping of the Roll) Regulations 1990 (PDF 32K)
- Practising Certificate Regulations 1995 (PDF 34K)
- Practising Certificate Fee Order and Regulations (PDF 40K)
- Higher Courts Qualification Regulations (PDF 76K)
Compensation fund
- Solicitors Compensation Fund Rules 1995 (PDF 69K)
- Solicitors Compensation Fund (Foreign Lawyers Contribution) Rules 1991(PDF 48K)
Registered European lawyers
- Establishment of Lawyers Directive 98/5/EC (PDF 123K)
- European Communities (Lawyers Practise) Regulations 2000 (PDF 158K)
- European Lawyers Registration Regulations 2000 (PDF 45K)
- Council resolution of 13 April 2000 (calculation of Compensation Fund contributions) (PDF 27K)
- Council resolution of 13 April 2000 (calculation of registration fees) (PDF 31K)
Registered foreign lawyers
- List of professions approved by the SRA for multi-national legal practice (PDF 68K)
- List of professional bodies which permit multi-national legal practice with solicitors in England and Wales (PDF 152K)
- Foreign Lawyers Registration Regulations 1995 (PDF 35K)
Appeals and applications to Master of the Rolls
- Master of the Rolls (Applications and Appeals) Regulations 2001 (PDF 39K)
- List of applications and appeals to Master of the Rolls (PDF 267K)