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Solicitors
- SRA Handbook
- Investigation and enforcement
- COLPs and COFAs
- Firm-based authorisation
- Supervision
- Resources
- Continuing competence and accreditation
- Qualified Lawyers Transfer
- Good standing and certificates
- Who we are
- Finding and using a solicitor
- Checking a solicitor's record
- Problems with a solicitor
- Frequently asked questions
- Scam alerts
- Training contract
- Period of recognised training
- Professional Skills Course providers
- Admission
- Resources
SRA Handbook
- Welcome
- Introduction
- Principles
- Code of Conduct
- Accounts Rules
- Authorisation and Practising Requirements
- Client Protection
- Discipline and Costs Recovery
- Overseas Rules
- Specialist Services
- Glossary
- If we are investigating you
- Reporting and how to report
- Intervention and the SDT
- PC conditions, suspension, removal from roll
- Recognised sole practitioners
- Certificate of good standing
- Certificate of attestation
- Replacement admission certificate
- Extract from the roll
- Firm letter of regulatory standing
- FAQs
- Find a solicitor
- Law firm search
- What to expect
- Get the best from your solicitor
- Costs and legal aid
- Legal jargon explained
- Help with searching
- Our approach to publication
- Controls
- Closures
- Agreements
- Approval denied
- Employee decision
- Sanctions
- Prosecutions
- Recent decisions
- Student information pack
- Legal Practice Course information pack
- FAQs for students
- Q&A on the Solicitor Apprenticeship
- Q&A for education providers
- Equivalent means information pack
SRA Standards and Regulations
the standards and requirements we expect our regulated community to achieve and observe, for the benefit of the clients they serve and in the public interest.
Standards and Regulations Index
The index will help you find where various themes occur across the Standards and Regulations.
Principles
The fundamental tenets of ethical behaviour that we, the SRA, expect of those that we regulate.
Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs
The standards that we, the SRA, and the public expect of individuals (solicitors, registered European lawyers and registered foreign lawyers).
Code of Conduct for Firms
The standards and business controls that we, the SRA, and the public expect of firms (including sole practices).
Accounts Rules
Our requirements for when firms (including sole practices) authorised by us receive or deal with money belonging to clients.
Application, Notice, Review and Appeal Rules
Our processes for handling applications made to us and the process for internal reviews and external appeals against our decisions.
Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules
Our criteria for assessing character and suitability.
Authorisation of Firms Rules
Our arrangements for authorising firms, including recognised bodies, licensed bodies and recognised sole practices.
Authorisation of Individuals Regulations
Our arrangements for authorising individuals as solicitors, RELs and RFLs.
Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations
Our requirements for organisations which provide or intend to provide education and training.
Financial Services (Scope) Rules
The scope of the regulated financial services activities that may be undertaken by firms we authorise.
Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Our rules for firms we authorise who are permitted to undertake regulated financial services activities.
Overseas and Cross-border Practice Rules
The standards we, the SRA, expect of regulated individuals and firms when practising overseas.
Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
How we investigate and take disciplinary and regulatory action.
Statutory Trust Rules
Our obligations relating to any money we take possession of after an intervention.
Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations
The nature and contents of the registers and the roll that we are required to keep.
Transparency Rules
The information which should be made available to clients and potential clients.
Indemnity (Enactment) Rules 2012
Our rules to enact the indemnity rules
Indemnity Rules 2012
Our rules to govern the operation of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund.
Compensation Fund Rules
Our rules to govern the way that we operate the SRA Compensation Fund.
Indemnity Insurance Rules
Our indemnity insurance requirements for firms that we authorise.
Glossary
Definitions of the terms we use in our rules.