SRA Standards and Regulations

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SRA SQE Assessment Regulations

Regulation 2

Commencement Date

These Regulations govern the SQE assessment from 1 September 2021.
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The prescribed organisations and terms under which Solicitors, RELs and RFLs are allowed to hold client money in their own name

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Obtaining and delivery of accountants' reports

The SRA may require you to obtain or deliver an accountant's report to the SRA on reasonable notice if the SRA considers that it is in the public interest to do so. You must ensure that any such report is prepared and signed by an accountant who is a member of one of the chartered accountancy bodies and who is, or works for, a registered auditor. The SRA may disqualify an accountant from...
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The prescribed organisations and terms under which Solicitors, RELs and RFLs are allowed to hold client money in their own name

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Client accounting systems and controls

You keep and maintain accurate, contemporaneous, and chronological records to: record in client ledgers identified by the client's name and an appropriate description of the matter to which they relate: all receipts and payments in your name which are client money on the client side of the client ledger account; all receipts and payments in your name which are not client money on the business...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 1

Authority

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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 4

Establishment and maintenance of fund

The SRA shall maintain the Indemnity Fund in accordance with these Rules. The purpose of the Indemnity Fund is to provide indemnity against loss as mentioned in section 37 of the SA as extended by section 9 of the AJA, Schedule 4 paragraph 1(3) of the European Communities (Lawyer's Practice) Regulations 2000 and section 89 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 in the circumstances, to the...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 5

Indemnity Periods before 1 September 1987

The policies taken out and maintained and the certificates issued by the Society pursuant to the Solicitors' Indemnity Rules 1975 to 1986 shall continue to provide cover subject to and in accordance with their terms in respect of their respective periods up to and including 31 August 1987. They shall not provide cover in respect of any subsequent period.
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 6

Application of the Rules

These Rules shall apply to a practice carried on by: a sole solicitor; an REL practising as a sole practitioner; a recognised body; a partnership consisting of one or more solicitors and/or RELs and/or recognised bodies and/or licensed bodies; a partnership consisting of one or more solicitors and/or RELs, together with one or more RFLs; a partnership consisting of one or more RELs with or...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 7

Scope of indemnity

The following persons, namely: solicitors, former solicitors, RELs, persons formerly practising RELs, RFLs practising in partnership with solicitors or RELs, persons formerly practising as RFLs in partnership with solicitors or RELs, non - registered European lawyers practising in partnership with RELs, and persons formerly practising as non - registered European lawyers in partnership with...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 10

Manner of indemnity

Such indemnity shall be provided, according to the decision of the SRA as set out in Rule 10.2, in any one or any combination of the following ways: by payment, in or towards satisfaction of the claim and/or claimant's costs and expenses, to or to the order of the claimant making the claim; by payment, in respect of the claim and/or claimant's costs and expenses and/or costs and expenses...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 11

Source of indemnity

Any such indemnity shall be provided and any claim thereto shall lie and be made exclusively out of and against the Indemnity Fund. The SRA shall have no obligation to provide indemnity save to the extent that the same can be provided out of the Indemnity Fund. In no circumstances shall any claim to indemnity lie or be made against the SRA or the Society or the Council or the Legal Services...