SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Financial Services (Scope) Rules
Credit-related regulated financial services activities
You must not enter into any transaction with a client in which you: provide the client with credit card cheques, a credit or store card, credit tokens, running account credit, a current account or high-cost short-term credit; hold a continuous payment authority over the client's account; or take any article from the client in pledge or pawn as security for the transaction. You must not: enter...
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations
Recognised training
In order to satisfactorily complete your period of recognised training, you must maintain a record of training which: contains details of the work you have performed; records how you have applied and developed the skills, as set out in the Practice Skills Standards; records your reflections on, and your training principal's appraisal of, your performance and development against, and your...
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SRA Accounts Rules
Storage and retention of accounting records
You must store all accounting records securely and retain these for at least six years.
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SRA Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Indemnity Periods before 1 September 1987
The policies taken out and maintained and the certificates issued by the Society pursuant to the Solicitors' Indemnity Rules 1975 to 1986 shall continue to provide cover subject to and in accordance with their terms in respect of their respective periods up to and including 31 August 1987. They shall not provide cover in respect of any subsequent period.
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
Arbitration
If a dispute arises between: a person who seeks indemnity from the Indemnity Fund in accordance with these Rules, and the SRA concerning any claim or the quantum of any claim that is the subject of the indemnity being sought from the Indemnity Fund by the person, the person and the SRA shall endeavour to resolve the dispute amicably. If, however, the dispute remains unresolved within [thirty...
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SRA Overseas and Cross-border Practice Rules
Cross-border Practice Rules
This Part applies to European cross-border practice from any office by: solicitors; managers of authorised bodies who are not authorised by an approved regulator (other than the SRA) under the LSA; and authorised bodies. These rules apply to European cross-border practice from an office in England and Wales by: RELs; RFLs who are managers or employees of an authorised body; and RSLs who are...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Adequate and appropriate insurance
Notwithstanding rule 2.1 above, an authorised body must take out and maintain professional indemnity insurance that provides adequate and appropriate cover in respect of current or past practice taking into account any alternative arrangements the body or its clients may make. An authorised body must ensure that its clients have the benefit of the indemnity insurance required under these...
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SRA SQE Assessment Regulations
SQE2
SQE2 will test oral and written legal skills in accordance with the Assessment Specification for SQE2. In order to pass SQE2 candidates must obtain the overall pass mark for SQE2. The pass mark for SQE2 will be set in accordance with the SQE Marking and Standard Setting Policy.
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SRA Application, Notice, Review and Appeal Rules
Power to conduct a review
The SRA may: where an administrative error in, or in relation to any decision comes to the SRA's attention, correct the error without the need to undergo a review under this Part; review all or part of any regulatory decision reached by it, of its own initiative, under this Part. Subject to rule 3.3, the SRA may review all or part of any of the regulatory decisions set out in annex 1 on the...
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