SRA Standards and Regulations

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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules

Rule 14

Treating complaints fairly

Notwithstanding your complaints handling obligations in the SRA Code of Conduct for Firms, you must have in place and operate appropriate and effective procedures for registering and responding to complaints from a person who is not a client.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules

Rule 22

Exclusions for large risks

Only rules 9, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 22 apply where you carry on insurance distribution activities for commercial clients in relation to contracts of insurance covering risks within the following categories: railway rolling stock, aircraft, ships (sea, lake, river and canal vessels), goods in transit, aircraft liability and liability of ships (sea, lake, river and canal vessels); credit and...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules

Rule 23

Disclosure of information

Where you undertake credit-related regulated financial services activities for a client, you must ensure that information in connection with such activities and any agreements to which they relate are communicated to the client in a way that is clear, fair and not misleading. Where you carry on the activity of credit broking, you must indicate in any advertising and documentation intended for...
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations

Regulation 2

Information in respect of individuals

The roll, and the registers in regulation 1.1(b) to (d) shall contain the following information in respect of each individual included in the same: their full name; their authorisation number; the date of their admission as a solicitor or commencement of their registration, as appropriate; in respect of solicitors that hold a current practising certificate, the fact that they do so and the...
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SRA Overseas and Cross-border Practice Rules

Rule 1

Application

The Overseas Rules apply to you: as a regulated individual who is practising overseas, in place of the SRA Principles and the SRA Code of Conduct for Individuals; or as a responsible authorised body in that you must ensure that your overseas practice and the individual managers, members and owners that are involved in the day to day or strategic management of your overseas practice, comply...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021

Rule 12

Losses outside the remit of the Fund

For the avoidance of doubt, the SRA shall not make a grant in respect of losses that: arise solely by reason of professional negligence by a defaulting practitioner, or the employee or manager of a defaulting practitioner, save as provided for in rule 3.4; are indirect or consequential, save where the SRA exercises its discretion to make a grant: under rule 8; for costs of completing or...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules

Rule 2

The investigation process

The SRA may carry out such investigations, and in doing so may exercise any of its investigative powers, as it considers appropriate: to identify whether a matter comprises an allegation under rule 1.2, or to the consideration of an allegation under rule 3. As soon as reasonably practicable after commencing an investigation under rule 2.1(b), the SRA will inform the relevant person accordingly...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules

Rule 3

Consideration by authorised decision makers

On finding that an allegation is proved (save for sub-paragraph (g)), an authorised decision maker may decide as appropriate in respect of a relevant person to: give a written rebuke, in accordance with section 44D(2)(a) of the SA or paragraph 14B(2)(a), Schedule 2 to the AJA; subject to rule 3.6, direct the payment of a financial penalty in accordance with section 44D(2)(b) of the SA,...
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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...