Confidentiality and disclosure

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Guidance

Guidance

Confidentiality of client information - Guidance

Guidance: To help you understand your obligation to keep clients' information confidential.

Glossary terms

client

means the person for whom you act and, where the context permits, includes prospective and former clients

in the SRA Financial Services (Scope) Rules, in relation to any regulated financial services activities carried on by an authorised body for a trust or the estate of a deceased person (including a controlled trust), means the trustees or personal representatives in their capacity as such and not any person who is a beneficiary under the trust or interested in the estate