SRA Standards and Regulations

Police Station Representative Accreditation Scheme assessment providers

Only an organisation approved by the SRA may provide assessments for the Police Station Representative Accreditation Scheme. An organisation may apply to the SRA in such manner as may be prescribed to be approved to provide such assessments. The SRA may, in relation to an application for approval: grant the application, subject to such conditions as it considers appropriate; or refuse the...

Transitional provisions

Any approval, authorisation or recognition granted under the Monitoring of Courses Regulations 1991, the SRA Training Regulations 2011, the SRA Higher Rights of Audience Regulations 2011 or the SRA Training Regulations 2014 - Qualification and Provider Regulations, will continue as if granted under these regulations. A period of recognised training entered into before these regulations come...

Maintenance of and contributions to the Fund

The SRA shall establish and maintain a fund for making grants in respect of claims made in accordance with these rules. Solicitors, RELs, RFLs, recognised bodies and licensed bodies must make contributions to the Fund in such amounts and at such times as may be prescribed. Any unpaid contributions may be recovered as a debt due to the SRA. The SRA may at any time: borrow for the purposes of...

The object of the Fund

The Fund is a discretionary fund of last resort and no person has a right to a grant enforceable at law. The primary objects of the Fund are: to replace money which a defaulting practitioner or a defaulting practitioner's employee or manager has misappropriated or otherwise failed to account for; and to relieve losses arising from the civil liability on the part of a defaulting practitioner or...

Grants which may be made from the Fund

For any grant to be made out of the Fund, an applicant must satisfy the SRA that the applicant is eligible in accordance with rule 4 and (save in respect of a grant made under rule 3.4) has suffered or is likely to suffer: loss in consequence of the dishonesty of a defaulting practitioner or the employee or manager or owner of a defaulting practitioner; or loss and hardship in consequence of a...

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...

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.

Fund of last resort

The SRA may refuse or reduce a grant where the loss or part of the loss is, or was, capable of being made good by some other means.

Notice to defaulting practitioner

The SRA may not make a grant unless it has given not less than 8 days' notice to the defaulting practitioner informing them of the nature and value of the application, unless it appears to the SRA that it would not be reasonably practicable to give such notice, or the grant should be made urgently. Where the SRA has made a grant urgently in accordance with rule 17.1, the SRA shall as soon as,...

Recovery and subrogation

Where the SRA makes a grant otherwise than by way of loan or if by way of loan repayments of the loan is waived or otherwise the borrower has failed to repay part or all of the loan, the SRA shall be subrogated to the rights and remedies of the person to whom or on whose behalf the grant is made to the extent of the amount of the grant. Where rule 18.1 applies, the recipient must if required...