SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Transparency Rules
Regulatory information
An authorised body must display in a prominent place on its website (or, in the case of a licensed body, the website relating to its legal services, if separate) its SRA number and the SRA's digital badge. An authorised body's letterhead and e-mails must show its SRA authorisation number and the words "authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority". A solicitor, an REL, RFL...
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SRA Transparency Rules
Regulatory information
An authorised body must display in a prominent place on its website (or, in the case of a licensed body, the website relating to its legal services, if separate) its SRA number and the SRA's digital badge. An authorised body's letterhead and e-mails must show its SRA authorisation number and the words "authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority". A solicitor, an REL, RFL...
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SRA Overseas and Cross-border Practice Rules
Dealings with client money
In all dealings you have with client money (overseas) you must: safeguard client money and assets entrusted to you; keep client money (overseas), separate from money which belongs to you; on receipt, pay client money (overseas) promptly into, and hold it in, an overseas client account, unless: to do so would conflict with your obligations under local law or regulation or with any obligation...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Retention of records
Each record which is made under these rules shall be kept for at least six years from the date it is made.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Use of intermediaries
You must not use, or propose to use, the services of another person consisting of: insurance distribution; reinsurance distribution; insurance distribution activity; or home finance mediation activity, unless the person: has permission to carry on the activity under Part 4A FSMA; is permitted to carry on the activity under an exemption made in or under FSMA, to the general prohibition set out...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Appropriation of payments
Where you are entitled to payments from the same client in respect of two or more regulated credit agreements, you must allow the client to put any payments made, in respect of those agreements, towards the satisfaction of the sum due under any one or more of the agreements in such proportions as the client thinks fit.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Consumer credit guidance
Where you undertake credit-related regulated financial services activities, you must have regard to any guidance issued by the SRA from time to time relating to such activities.
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
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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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Costs
An authorised decision maker may require a person who is the subject of a decision under rule 3.1(a) to (f) to pay a charge in accordance with Schedule 1 to these rules. The authorised decision maker may decide to charge less than the amount that would be payable in accordance with Schedule 1 if they consider that it would be just in all the circumstances to do so. Any charge must be paid by...
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