SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
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SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations
Authorised training providers
Only an authorised training provider may provide a period of recognised training to trainees. An organisation may apply for authorisation as an authorised training provider and its application must demonstrate that it will meet the requirements of regulations 3 to 5 below. The SRA may, in relation to an application for approval or authorisation: grant the application, subject to such...
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SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations
Training principals
The training principal for an authorised training provider must: be a solicitor holding a current practising certificate or be a practising barrister; notify the SRA in the prescribed form before any individual commences a period of recognised training or if this is not possible then as soon as practicable thereafter; ensure that the training provided meets the requirements of regulation 4;...
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SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations
Higher rights of audience assessment providers
Only an organisation approved by the SRA may provide assessments in higher courts civil advocacy and higher courts criminal advocacy conferring a higher courts advocacy qualification. An organisation may apply to the SRA in such manner as may be prescribed to be approved to provide such assessments. The SRA may, in relation to an application for approval: grant the application, subject to such...
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SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations
Monitoring and inspection
In order to protect and promote the standards of legal education and training, the SRA may: monitor the relevant programmes of study provided by an approved education provider and an authorised education provider, the training provided by an authorised training provider or the assessments provided by an assessment provider approved under regulation 6; visit the provider's premises, at such...
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SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations
Transitional provisions
Any approval, authorisation or recognition granted under the Monitoring of Courses Regulations 1991, the SRA Training Regulations 2011, the SRA Higher Rights of Audience Regulations 2011 or the SRA Training Regulations 2014 - Qualification and Provider Regulations, will continue as if granted under these regulations. A period of recognised training entered into before these regulations come...
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SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations
Police Station Representative Accreditation Scheme assessment providers
Only an organisation approved by the SRA may provide assessments for the Police Station Representative Accreditation Scheme. An organisation may apply to the SRA in such manner as may be prescribed to be approved to provide such assessments. The SRA may, in relation to an application for approval: grant the application, subject to such conditions as it considers appropriate; or refuse the...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Obligation to effect insurance
An authorised body carrying on a practice during any indemnity period beginning on or after 25 November 2019 must take out and maintain qualifying insurance under these rules with a participating insurer. In respect of its obligation under rule 2.1, an authorised body must obtain a policy of qualifying insurance prior to the expiry of the policy period, that provides cover incepting on and...
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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 rules...
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