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Compliance with the money laundering regulations – firm risk assessment - Warning notice

This Warning Notice reminds you of your legal obligations to make sure that you do not facilitate money laundering or terrorist financing and understand your obligations under the money laundering regulations.

Firm-wide risk assessments - Guidance

Understand how firms subject to the money laundering regulations must comply with the requirement to have a firm wide risk assessment under regulation 18.

Complying with the UK Sanctions Regime - Guidance

This guidance is to help you understand your obligations and how to comply with them. We will have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions

Money laundering and terrorist financing - Warning notice

This Warning Notice reminds you of the warning signs of suspicious transactions.

Client and matter risk assessments - Warning notice

To help you understand your obligations and how to comply with them. We may have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions

Effective supervision - Guidance

Guidance for solicitors and firms the SRA regulates that supervise individuals delivering legal services. This includes services delivered by individuals who are not authorised by us.

Reporting concerns about wrongdoing when working in-house - Guidance

To help you understand what we expect you to do when you are concerned about actions taken or decisions made by your organisation.

Multi-disciplinary practices: Regulation of non-reserved legal activity - Guidance

To help you understand how we will regulate reserved and non-reserved legal activity in an MDP.

Topic:

Authorisation

Terminating a retainer - Guidance

To clarify the circumstances in which a solicitor or firm may be entitled to terminate an existing client retainer.

Topic:

Client care

Terminating a retainer - Case study

These case studies are formulated to help you consider your professional obligations in circumstances where you are considering terminating a client retainer.

Topic:

Client care