SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Accounts Rules
Client account
You only maintain a client account at a branch (or the head office) of a bank or a building society in England and Wales. You ensure that the name of any client account includes: the name of the authorised body; and the word "client" to distinguish it from any other type of account held or operated by the authorised body. You must not use a client account to provide banking facilities to...
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SRA Accounts Rules
Client money must be kept separate
You keep client money separate from money belonging to the authorised body. You ensure that you allocate promptly any funds from mixed payments you receive to the correct client account or business account. Where you are holding client money and some or all of that money will be used to pay your costs: you must give a bill of costs, or other written notification of the costs incurred, to the...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
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SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs
Client information and publicity
You give clients information in a way they can understand. You ensure they are in a position to make informed decisions about the services they need, how their matter will be handled and the options available to them. You ensure that clients receive the best possible information about how their matter will be priced and, both at the time of engagement and when appropriate as their matter...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Details of participating insurer
This rule is in addition to any obligations imposed on the authorised body under the Provision of Services Regulations 2009. If a claimant asserts a claim against an authorised body or any person insured under that authorised body's policy, and the claim relates to any matter within the scope of cover of the MTC, the authorised body, and any person who is at the relevant time a principal in...
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SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
Applicable standards in the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs
The following paragraphs in the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs apply to you in their entirety as though references to "you" were references to you as a firm: dispute resolution and proceedings before courts, tribunals and inquiries (2.1 to 2.7); referrals, introductions and separate businesses (5.1 to 5.3); and standards which apply when providing services to the...
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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 Transparency Rules
Costs information
An authorised body, or an individual practising in the circumstances set out in regulation 10.2(b)(i) to (vii) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations, who publishes as part of its usual business the availability of any of the services set out at rule 1.3 to individuals or at rule 1.4 to businesses, must, in relation to those services, publish on its website cost information in...
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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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