SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Use of information
Each authorised body must notify the SRA (or such person as the SRA may notify to the authorised body from time to time) and its participating insurer in writing as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event no later than five business days after the date on which: the authorised body enters an extended policy period; the authorised body has entered the cessation period; and where the...
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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 Indemnity Insurance Rules
Application
These rules apply to authorised bodies and their principals.
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021
Maintenance of and contributions to the Fund
The SRA shall establish and maintain a fund for making grants in respect of applications made in accordance with these rules. Solicitors, RELs, RFLs, recognised bodies and licensed bodies must make contributions to the Fund in such amounts and at such times as may be prescribed. Any unpaid contributions may be recovered as a debt due to the SRA. The SRA may at any time: borrow for the purposes...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021
Residual discretion and fund of last resort
The Fund is a discretionary fund of last resort and no person has a right to a grant enforceable at law. The SRA retains a discretion to refuse to consider an application or to make a grant notwithstanding that the conditions in these rules for making a grant are satisfied. The circumstances in which the residual discretion in rule 2.1 may be exercised include, but are not limited to,...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021
Grants which may be made from the Fund
A person may apply for a grant out of the Fund, if the loss referred to in rule 3.3 relates to services provided: by the defaulting practitioner for them; or to, or as, a trustee where they are a beneficiary of the estate or trust. A person who is not a client of the defaulting practitioner may apply for a grant out of the Fund if they: were a party on the other side of a legal matter on which...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021
Eligibility for a grant
A person is eligible to apply for a grant out of the Fund if, at the time the application is made, they are: an individual; a sole trader; partnership, body corporate, unincorporated association or mutual association with an annual turnover or assets of less than £2 million; a charity with annual income net of tax in the most recent financial year of less than £2 million; or a trustee of a...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021
Defaulting practitioners
A defaulting practitioner means: a solicitor or an REL who at the date of the relevant act or omission was: practising in an authorised body; or practising in a non-commercial body; a solicitor or an REL who at the date of the relevant act or omission: was self-employed and practising in their own name, and not through a trading name or service company; did not employ anyone in connection with...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules 2021
Grants in respect of statutory trusts
The SRA may make a grant to alleviate a deficiency in a statutory trust held by the SRA. The SRA may make a grant to a person where the money would have been due to that person but for their claim having been extinguished under rule 9.2 of the SRA Intervention Powers (Statutory Trust) Rules 2011 or rule 8.2 of the SRA Statutory Trust Rules.
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