SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules (Archived)
Defaulting practitioners
The SRA may only make a grant in respect of acts or omissions of a defaulting practitioner, or of a defaulting practitioner's employee, owner or manager as appropriate, which fall within rule 3. A defaulting practitioner means: a solicitor or an REL who at the date of the relevant act or omission was: practising in an authorised body; or practising in a non-commercial body; a solicitor or an...
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SRA Application, Notice, Review and Appeal Rules
Miscellaneous
A refusal to grant permission to a solicitor to employ or remunerate in connection with their practice any individual who to their knowledge has been disqualified from practising as a solicitor as a result of being struck off the roll; or who is suspended from practice as a solicitor; or whose practising certificate is suspended as a result of being an undischarged bankrupt.
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations
Retention
If you are a solicitor and you do not hold a practising certificate the SRA will write to you once a year at the last notified version of your postal or email address to ask you whether you wish your name to remain on the roll. If, following an enquiry under regulation 5.4, you wish your name to remain on the roll, you shall be required to pay a fee of £10.
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations
Eligibility requirements
You will be eligible for admission as a solicitor if the SRA is satisfied: you have successfully and satisfactorily completed: an apprenticeship leading to qualification as a solicitor; or the academic stage of training and the vocational stage of training; and as to your character and suitability to be a solicitor. The SRA may decide that it is satisfied that you have completed all or any...
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SRA SQE Assessment Regulations
Fit to sit
A 'Fit to Sit' Policy operates for the SQE. Candidates who present themselves for any part of the SQE will be required to sign a declaration that they are fit to sit the assessment. Being 'Fit to Sit' means that the candidate knows of no reason why their performance would be adversely affected during the assessment or why they may subsequently bring a claim for mitigating circumstances.
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules (Archived)
Conduct of the applicant and contribution to loss
A grant may be refused or reduced to take account of any act or omission by the applicant or anyone acting on their behalf that has contributed to or has failed to mitigate the loss.
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SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
Client money and assets
You properly account to clients for any financial benefit you receive as a result of their instructions, except where they have agreed otherwise. You safeguard money and assets entrusted to you by clients and others.
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SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
Cooperation and accountability
You keep up to date with and follow the law and regulation governing the way you work. You cooperate with the SRA, other regulators, ombudsmen and those bodies with a role overseeing and supervising the delivery of, or investigating concerns in relation to, legal services. You respond promptly to the SRA and: provide full and accurate explanations, information and documentation in response to...
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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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