SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Accounts Rules
Operation of a client's own account
If, in the course of practice, you operate a client's own account as signatory, Part 2 of these rules does not apply save for: rule 8.2 - statements from banks, building societies and other financial institutions; rule 8.3 - reconciliations; rule 8.4 - bills and notifications of costs.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Record of commissions
Where you receive commission which is attributable to your regulated financial services activities, you must keep a record of: the amount of the commission; and how you have accounted to the client.
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Insolvency of participating insurer
If an authorised body is carrying on a practice which is being provided with qualifying insurance by a participating insurer (whether alone or together with another participating insurer) and that participating insurer is the subject of an insolvency event then the authorised body and any principal of the body must ensure that the authorised body has in place qualifying insurance with another...
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SRA Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Indemnity limit
Save in relation to an expired run-off claim, in respect of which the provisions of Rule 8.5 shall apply, the indemnity limit shall be £1,000,000 each and every claim (including claimants' costs).
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Shortfall in statutory trust account
In cases where a shortfall is revealed between statutory trust monies held, and the beneficial entitlements shown in a reconciled list or best list, the SRA may rectify the position, in whole or in part, by the use of other monies taken into its possession in consequence of the intervention to which that list relates. Where, having applied additional funds under rule 6.1, a shortfall still...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Eligibility
You will be eligible to apply for authorisation: as a licensed body, if you are a licensable body and have at least one manager that is an authorised person (other than a licensed body or an RSL); as a recognised body, if you are a legal services body in which all of the managers and interest holders are legally qualified (other than RSLs); or as a recognised sole practice, if you are a...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
RELs
The provisions contained in annex 2 to these rules apply to an authorised body that has at least one principal who is an REL.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Means of communication to clients
Rule 18 applies to all information required to be provided to a client in this Part. You must communicate information to the client on paper or using any of the following means: a durable medium other than paper where the following conditions are satisfied: the use of a durable medium other than paper is appropriate in the context of the business conducted between the firm and the client; and...
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SRA Accounts Rules
Client money
"Client money" is money held or received by you: relating to regulated services delivered by you to a client; on behalf of a third party in relation to regulated services delivered by you (such as money held as agent, stakeholder or held to the sender's order); as a trustee or as the holder of a specified office or appointment, such as donee of a power of attorney, Court of Protection deputy...
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