SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021
Foreign lawyers
The SRA shall not make a grant in respect of any act or omission of an REL, or the employee of an REL, where such act or omission took place outside the UK, unless the SRA is satisfied that the act or omission was, or was closely connected with, the act or omission of a solicitor or the employee of a solicitor, or that the act or omission was closely connected with the REL's practice in the...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Adequate and appropriate insurance
Notwithstanding rule 2.1 above, an authorised body must take out and maintain professional indemnity insurance that provides adequate and appropriate cover in respect of current or past practice taking into account any alternative arrangements the body or its clients may make. An authorised body must ensure that its clients have the benefit of the indemnity insurance required under these rules...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Transitionals and savings
For the purposes of the SA (including without limitation section 10 of that Act), any person who is in breach of any rule or part of any rule under the Solicitors' Indemnity Insurance Rules 2000 to 2010 or SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules 2011 to 2013 will be deemed, for so long as that person remains in breach, not to be complying with these rules.
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SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
Conflict of interests
You do not act if there is an own interest conflict or a significant risk of such a conflict. You do not act in relation to a matter or a particular aspect of it if you have a conflict of interest or a significant risk of such a conflict in relation to that matter or aspect of it, unless: the clients have a substantially common interest in relation to the matter or the aspect of it, as...
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SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
Compliance officers
If you are a COLP you must take all reasonable steps to: ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of your firm's authorisation; ensure compliance by your firm and its managers, employees or interest holders with the SRA's regulatory arrangements which apply to them; ensure that your firm's managers and interest holders and those they employ or contract with do not cause or substantially...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Monitoring
The SRA may require from an authorised body or any principal in an authorised body, information and evidence it may reasonably require to satisfy itself that the body has complied with these rules.
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations
Eligibility for admission
You will be eligible for admission as a solicitor if the SRA is satisfied: you have successfully and satisfactorily passed an assessment which is designed to assess your competence against the prescribed competences for solicitors and is conducted by an assessment organisation appointed by the SRA for the purpose; you hold a degree or qualifications or experience which the SRA is satisfied are...
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations
Qualifying work experience
Qualifying work experience must: comprise experience of providing legal services which provides you the opportunity to develop the prescribed competences for solicitors; be of a duration of a total of at least two years' full time or equivalent; and be carried out under an arrangement or employment with no more than four separate firms, educational institutions or other organisations. In...
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations
Vocational stage
Your eligibility to commence the Legal Practice Course will be determined according to the requirements, approved by the SRA, of the relevant authorised education provider. Subject to regulation 3A.2, to complete the vocational stage of training you must complete: the Legal Practice Course; a period of recognised training; and the Professional Skills Course.
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