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Immigration work - Warning notice

Over a period of time we have also identified risks around solicitors producing poorly drafted applications, or advising their clients to pursue totally without merit appeals of Home Office decisions through the courts. 

Supporting your client with interviews during external investigations - Guidance

This explains your obligations when supporting your client in interviews with external agencies.

Proceeds of crime - Guidance

How to prevent financial crime, understand the UK's proceeds of crime regime and what you need to do to comply with it.

Firm-wide risk assessments - Guidance

Understand how firms subject to the money laundering regulations must comply with the requirement to have a firm wide risk assessment under regulation 18.

The SRA's approach to financial penalties - Guidance

A guide for our decision makers to assist them in arriving at an appropriate financial penalty for the individuals and firms we regulate.

Decision-making in disciplinary cases - Guidance

This guidance is to help you understand how we make a first-instance decision in a disciplinary case and how we deal with an application for an internal review of that decision.

SRA investigations: health issues and medical evidence - Guidance

Guidance: to help you understand the approach we take to health issues which are raised by those we are investigating and the medical evidence we might ask for.

Workplace environment: risks of failing to protect and support colleagues - Guidance

Guidance on our approach where we consider that individuals and firms have failed to take appropriate steps to look after colleagues' wellbeing.

Workplace environment: risks of failing to protect and support colleagues - Case studies

Case studies to be read in conjunction with the guidance on workplace environment: risks of failing to protect and support colleagues

Publishing complaints procedure - Guidance

The requirements under the Transparency Rules to publish information concerning your complaints procedure.

Improper use of client account as a banking facility - Warning notice

How to prevent your firm’s client bank account being improperly used as a banking facility.

Improper use of client account as a banking facility - Case studies

Case studies to be read in conjunction with the warning notice on improper use of client account as a banking facility.

Do I need to operate a client account? - Guidance

Questions and answers for SRA-authorised firms that receive client money in the form of fees and disbursements and want to rely on the exemption not to operate a client account.

Solicitors undertaking regulated claims management and immigration activities - Guidance

Understand your obligations and how to comply with them. We will have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions.

Effective supervision - Guidance

Guidance for solicitors and firms the SRA regulates that supervise individuals delivering legal services. This includes services delivered by individuals who are not authorised by us.

Immigration work - Guidance

Under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (IAA) you must be a 'qualified' person to provide immigration and asylum advice and services to the public in England and Wales - explained in this detailed guidance.

Convictions arising from matters of principle or social conscience - Guidance

To explain your obligations when you as a legal practitioner are convicted in relation to matters of principle or social conscience.

Sexual Misconduct - Guidance

Guidance about sexual misconduct allegations for those we regulate and complainants considering reporting allegations of sexual misconduct to us.

Acting with integrity - Guidance

To help explain Principle 5 and the requirement to act with integrity.

Professional duties during action taken by the Criminal Bar Association - Guidance

What our Standards and Regulations require when acting for clients who may be affected by industrial action taken by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA).