Confidentiality and disclosure
Guidance
Guidance
Confidentiality of client information - GuidanceGuidance: To help you understand your obligation to keep clients' information confidential.
Mergers, acquisitions and sales of law firms - Warning noticeWarning notice: Relevant to all firms and individuals we regulate who are thinking of or in the process of acquiring other law firms and seeking to sell or merge their law firm with another regulated entity
Money missing from client account - Warning noticeWarning notice: Relevant to all firms and individuals we regulate but is particularly relevant to you if you are a manager of a firm or a firm's COFA or COLP.
Glossary terms
client
means the person for whom you act and, where the context permits, includes prospective and former clients
in the SRA Financial Services (Scope) Rules, in relation to any regulated financial services activities carried on by an authorised body for a trust or the estate of a deceased person (including a controlled trust), means the trustees or personal representatives in their capacity as such and not any person who is a beneficiary under the trust or interested in the estate