HOOLE & CO
- Head office address
- BRISTOL View contact details
- Website
- WWW.HOOLEANDCO.CO.UK
- Type of firm
- Closed on 01/01/2023
- Regulator
- Solicitors Regulation Authority
- SRA number
- 49916
- Regulatory record
- Show regulatory record
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DECISION HISTORY
This section gives the disciplinary and regulatory decisions published under our decision publication policy.
Decision - Fined
Outcome: Fine
Outcome date: 16 December 2022
Published date: 2 February 2023
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication
Name: Hoole & Co
Address(es): 65 Gloucester Road, Patchway, Bristol
Firm ID: 49916
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
The firm was issued with a financial penalty of £1,400 and ordered to pay costs of £600.
Reasons/basis
Hoole & Co is a recognised body whose head office is at 65 Gloucester Road Patchway Bristol BS34 5JH.
The SRA Transparency Rules came into effect on 6 December 2018. They require all firms authorised and regulated by the SRA to display specified information on their websites if they provide certain types of legal services. The purpose of the Transparency Rules is to ensure people have accurate and relevant information about a solicitor or firm when they are considering purchasing legal services. They are intended to help members of the public and small businesses make informed choices, improving competition in the legal market. The firm has failed to publish mandatory details about costs on its website in breach of rule 1.1 of the SRA Transparency Rules.
The firm was ordered to pay a £1,400 financial penalty and costs of £600.
Decision - Control of practice
Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 16 December 2022
Published date: 3 January 2023
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication
Name: Hoole & Co
Address(es): 65 Gloucester Road, Patchway, Bristol
Firm ID: 49916
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
Conditions on the firm’s authorisation imposed with immediate effect.
Reasons/basis
Hoole & Co is a recognised body whose head office is at 65 Gloucester Road Patchway Bristol BS34 5JH
The following condition was imposed on Hoole & Co’s authorisation with immediate effect:
- If the firm publishes as available any of the services specified in rules 1.3 or 1.4 of the Transparency Rules, it must provide evidence to the SRA’s reasonable satisfaction that, in respect of each of those services:
- it publishes the information specified in rule 1.5 of the Transparency Rules, and
- such information is clear and accessible and is in a prominent place on its website.
