SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Annex 2: Professional services
The professional services referred to in rule 6.1(b) are: Alternative dispute resolution. Financial services. Estate agency. Management consultancy. Company secretarial services. Other professional and specialist business support services including human resources, recruitment, systems support, outsourcing, transcription and translating. Acting as a parliamentary agent. Practising as a lawyer...
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SRA Overseas and Cross-border Practice Rules
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 Overseas and Cross-border Practice Rules
Dealings with client money
In all dealings you have with client money (overseas) you must: safeguard client money and assets entrusted to you; keep client money (overseas), separate from money which belongs to you; on receipt, pay client money (overseas) promptly into, and hold it in, an overseas client account, unless: to do so would conflict with your obligations under local law or regulation or with any obligation...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
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 licensed body in respect of its regulated activities.
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
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 Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Exclusions from cover
The fund shall not afford any indemnity in respect of any loss arising out of any claim: for death, bodily injury, physical loss or physical damage to property of any kind whatsoever (other than property in the care, custody and control of the previous practice or member thereof in connection with its, his or her private practice for which it, he or she is responsible, not being property...
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SRA Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Manner of indemnity
Such indemnity shall be provided, according to the decision of Solicitors Indemnity Fund Limited 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...
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SRA Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Maximum liability of the fund
The liability of the 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 practices or...
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