SRA Standards and Regulations

Referrals, introductions and separate businesses

In respect of any referral of a client by you to another person, or of any third party who introduces business to you or with whom you share your fees, you ensure that: clients are informed of any financial or other interest which you or your business or employer has in referring the client to another person or which an introducer has in referring the client to you; clients are informed of any...

Managers in SRA authorised firms

If you are a manager, you are responsible for compliance by your firm with this Code. This responsibility is joint and several if you share management responsibility with other managers of the firm.

Client identification

You identify who you are acting for in relation to any matter.

Disclosure and evidential requirements

Subject to rule 6.3 below, on making an application under any of the provisions set out in rule 1.1, you must disclose all matters, wherever they have taken place (including overseas), which are relevant to the SRA's assessment of your character and suitability, including, where practicable, any information set out in Table 4 which is relevant to the matter in question. On making an...

Payment of periodical fees

Every authorised body must pay to the SRA a periodical fee in the amount, and by the date prescribed.

Management, control, and supervision

Subject to rules 9.2 and 9.3, an authorised body must ensure that the SRA has approved any manager or owner of the authorised body under Part 4. A sole principal whose practice has been authorised as a recognised sole practice is not required to be approved separately as a manager of that practice. If the SRA is satisfied that a manager of an authorised body is not involved in any of the...

Approval of role holders

Subject to rules 13.2 to 13.4, the SRA may approve a person's designation as a COLP or COFA or to be a manager or owner of an authorised body if it is satisfied that the individual is fit and proper to undertake the role, in accordance with the SRA Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules. The SRA will deem a person to be fit and proper to be a manager or owner of an authorised body if...

Loss of eligibility

If the last remaining legally qualified manager of an authorised body whose role ensures the body's compliance with the eligibility requirements for its authorisation under rule 1: is sentenced to imprisonment; becomes unable to carry on their role because of incapacity; abandons the business; is made subject to a restriction, condition or other regulatory decision by the SRA or another...

Applications for termination of certain orders

Where a person has been: disqualified from acting as a HOLP or HOFA, or a manager or employee of a body licensed under the LSA; made subject by the SRA to an order under section 43(2) of the SA; or made subject by the SRA to an order suspending their practising certificate or registration in the register of European lawyers, the register of foreign lawyers, or the register of Swiss lawyers,...

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