SRA Standards and Regulations

Determination of applications

If the SRA considers it to be in the public interest to do so, it must: refuse your application for a practising certificate, or your application for registration or renewal of registration, in the register of European lawyers, the register of foreign lawyers, or the register of Swiss lawyers; or at any time, whether on grant of such an application or at the end of a period of suspension of a...

Financial services activities

If you are a solicitor, an REL RFL or RSL you may carry on regulated financial services activities under the SRA Financial Services (Scope) Rules, provided that such activities are undertaken through an authorised body.

Insurance product information document and appropriate information

You must ensure that the client is given objective and relevant information about a policy in good time prior to the conclusion of the policy, so that the client can make an informed decision. You must provide the information in rule 21.1 to the client: whether or not you give a personal recommendation; and irrespective of the fact that the policy is offered as part of a package with: a...

Information in respect of authorised bodies

The register of authorised bodies under regulation 1.1(e) shall contain the following information in respect of each body included within it: the name under which the body is authorised; the body's authorisation number; the body's main practising address in the UK; all the body's other practising addresses including addresses of its overseas practices; any previous name under which the body...

General provisions

The SRA may include in the roll or registers such other prescribed information it considers conducive to help it meet the regulatory objectives. The SRA shall keep and publish lists of: orders made by the Tribunal and disciplinary or regulatory decisions made under the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules, in respect of individuals who are not solicitors, RELs, RFLs or RSLs...

Publication of information

The SRA shall publish all entries on the roll or registers, except for any address included under regulation 2.1(h). If the SRA considers that it would be in the public interest to do so, it may withhold from publication any or all of the information subject to publication under regulation 5.1. The SRA may publish such further information or classes of information as it may consider in the...

Interest

In respect of any grants made under rules 3, 6 or 7 the SRA may make a supplementary grant by way of a sum in lieu of lost interest on the loss underlying the principal grant. Such interest will be calculated by the SRA in accordance with prescribed rates. Where the application for the principal grant is in respect of a failure to redeem a mortgage, the SRA may also make a grant in respect of...

Maximum grant

Unless the SRA is satisfied that there are exceptional circumstances in the public interest that justify a higher sum, the maximum grant that may be made is £2 million. For the purposes of this rule, a single claim is an application, or applications, from an applicant for the loss incurred by them arising from a single event or set of connected underlying circumstances.

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...

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...