SRA Standards and Regulations

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SRA Financial Services (Scope) Rules

Rule 6

Credit-related regulated financial services activities

You must not enter into any transaction with a client in which you: provide the client with credit card cheques, a credit or store card, credit tokens, running account credit, a current account or high-cost short-term credit; hold a continuous payment authority over the client's account; or take any article from the client in pledge or pawn as security for the transaction. You must not: enter...
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SRA Financial Services (Scope) Rules

Rule 3

Prohibited activities

You must not carry on, or agree to carry on, any of the following activities: an activity that is specified in an order made under section 327(6) of FSMA; an activity that relates to an investment that is specified in an order made under section 327(6) of FSMA; entering into a regulated credit agreement as lender except where the regulated credit agreement relates exclusively to the payment of...
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SRA Transparency Rules

Rule 4

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 Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations

Regulation 1

The roll and registers

The SRA shall keep in electronic form: the roll; a register of all solicitors who hold practising certificates; the register of European lawyers; the register of foreign lawyers; the register of Swiss lawyers; and a register of authorised bodies.
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations

Regulation 1

The roll and registers

The SRA shall keep in electronic form: the roll; a register of all solicitors who hold practising certificates; the register of European lawyers; the register of foreign lawyers; the register of Swiss lawyers; and a register of authorised bodies.
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SRA Indemnity Fund (Enactment) Rules

Rule 1

Authority

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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 3

Definitions and interpretation

The SRA Glossary shall apply and unless the context otherwise requires: all italicised terms shall be defined in accordance with the Glossary; terms shall be interpreted in accordance with the Glossary; a reference to a Rule is to a Rule forming part of these Rules, except in relation to Schedule 1 where a reference to a rule is to a rule in the Solicitors' Indemnity Rules 1999; the Schedule...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 12

Maximum liability of the Indemnity Fund

The liability of the Indemnity Fund as stated in Rule 8.1(c) shall in no event exceed in respect of each such claim the indemnity limit for the relevant indemnity period. All claims arising from the same act or omission (whether or not made or intimated or arising out of circumstances notified during the same indemnity period and whether or not involving the same or any number of different...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 17

Powers of the SRA

The SRA shall hold, and have full power to manage and administer, the Indemnity Fund, subject only to: such directions, conditions and/or requirements as the SRA may from time to time issue to or impose upon it expressly pursuant to this provision, and/or such further detailed arrangements as the SRA may from time to time agree with it. Without limiting the generality of Rule 17.1, the...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021

Rule 8

Interest

In respect of any grants made under rules 3, 6 or 7 the SRA may make a supplementary grant by way of a sum in lieu of lost interest on the loss underlying the principal grant. Such interest will be calculated by the SRA in accordance with prescribed rates. Where the application for the principal grant is in respect of a failure to redeem a mortgage, the SRA may also make a grant in respect of...