SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Management, control, and supervision
Subject to rules 9.2 and 9.3, an authorised body must ensure that the SRA has approved any manager or owner of the authorised body under Part 4. A sole principal whose practice has been authorised as a recognised sole practice is not required to be approved separately as a manager of that practice. If the SRA is satisfied that a manager of an authorised body is not involved in any of the...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Effect of authorisation
If you are a recognised body or a recognised sole practice authorised by the SRA you are entitled to carry on: all reserved legal activities except notarial activities; and immigration work. If you are a licensed body you are entitled to carry on the activities set out in rule 5.1, in accordance with the terms of your licence. An authorised body may only carry on a reserved legal activity...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Payment of periodical fees
Every authorised body must pay to the SRA a periodical fee in the amount, and by the date prescribed.
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Approval of role holders
Subject to rules 13.2 to 13.4, the SRA may approve a person's designation as a COLP or COFA or to be a manager or owner of an authorised body if it is satisfied that the individual is fit and proper to undertake the role, in accordance with the SRA Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules. The SRA will deem a person to be fit and proper to be a manager or owner of an authorised body if...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Approval of role holders
Subject to rules 13.2 to 13.4, the SRA may approve a person's designation as a COLP or COFA or to be a manager or owner of an authorised body if it is satisfied that the individual is fit and proper to undertake the role, in accordance with the SRA Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules. The SRA will deem a person to be fit and proper to be a manager or owner of an authorised body if...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Eligibility
You will be eligible to apply for authorisation: as a licensed body, if you are a licensable body and have at least one manager that is an authorised person (other than a licensed body or an RSL); as a recognised body, if you are a legal services body in which all of the managers and interest holders are legally qualified (other than RSLs); or as a recognised sole practice, if you are a...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Authorisation decision
The SRA may grant an application for authorisation in relation to one or more reserved legal activity. The SRA will refuse an application for authorisation if it is not satisfied that, if authorisation is granted: the applicant's managers, interest holders or management and governance arrangements are suitable to operate or control a business providing regulated legal services; the applicant...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Restrictions on services provided by a recognised body or recognised sole practice
If you are a recognised body or recognised sole practice, your business may consist only of the provision of: professional services of the sort provided by individuals practising as solicitors and/or lawyers of other jurisdictions; and the services set out in annex 2 (whether or not they are also included in paragraph (a)), and if you have a notary public as a manager or employee, then...
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SRA Application, Notice, Review and Appeal Rules
Decisions on review
A review will usually be determined by an authorised decision maker on consideration of written evidence alone. An adjudicator may at their sole discretion invite the relevant person to be interviewed by an authorised decision maker accompanied by their representative (if any). Subject to rule 4.3, on a review (save for a review of a decision made under rule 3.1(h) of the SRA Regulatory and...
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