8 August 2022
To help you understand what our Standards and Regulations require when acting for clients who are buying leasehold properties and to avoid possible breaches of our requirements.
29 July 2022
Clarifies the position of SRA-authorised firms following the introduction of new regulatory requirements relating to pre-paid funeral plans.
19 July 2022
To help you understand the approach we take when deciding whether to issue proceedings in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
30 June 2022
To highlight issues to consider before receiving and accepting instructions from vulnerable clients or third parties acting on their behalf.
30 June 2022
To help you understand your obligation to keep clients' information confidential.
8 March 2022
Guidance to explain your obligations when you are linked with a separate business.
4 March 2022
This guidance is to help you understand your obligations and how to comply with them. We will have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions.
22 February 2022
To enable those who are closing down their practice to protect the interests of their clients and comply with our Standards and Regulations.
28 January 2022
Concerns have been raised about the restrictions that are placed on solicitors and registered European lawyers (RELs) who normally practise through an SRA authorised body, an authorised non-SRA firm (together described below as an authorised firm) or any other business and want to be able to administer oaths or statutory declarations outside their normal practice.
26 January 2022
This starter pack provides help and support to practitioners looking to establish their own business.
30 December 2021
To help those we regulate understand how we assess reports and complaints made about them.
17 November 2021
How we will regulate you if you are not authorised by us directly but where you are involved in a firm we regulate or work for, or are supervised, by a solicitor.
28 September 2021
Understand how your firm can meet our expected standard when offering qualifying work experience (QWE).
28 September 2021
Understand your obligations around confirming qualifying work experience (QWE) and how to comply with them. We may have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions.
4 July 2021
To help you understand how we deal with money when we intervene into a firm.
25 March 2021
How to practise in the UK as a European lawyer.
24 March 2021
To enable foreign lawyers to understand when they need to become an RFL, who can become one and the obligations they have.
12 March 2021
How we approve persons to be managers, owners or compliance officers of firms we regulate.
8 March 2021
An overview of our approach in determining whether a particular role or interest a person has in licensed body requires approval.
5 March 2021
To help you understand how we will regulate reserved and non- reserved legal activity in an MDP.