SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Use of information
Without prejudice to the Society's power under Rule 4.5 to designate itself as the person responsible for holding, managing and administering the fund, information and documents obtained by Solicitors Indemnity Fund Limited about any particular practice or member thereof in the course of investigating and handling any claim made or intimated or any circumstances notified as mentioned in Rule...
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SRA Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Waivers
The Society shall have power in any case or class of cases to waive in writing prospectively or retrospectively any obligation on any solicitor, recognised body, licensed body or foreign lawyer under these Rules and to amend or revoke any such waiver. Any application by any person for: a waiver of any obligation under these Rules or under the Solicitors' Indemnity Rules 2001 or any Rules...
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SRA Indemnity Rules 2012 (Archived)
Authority
These Rules are made on 22 June 2012 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority Board under sections 37, 79 and 80 of the Solicitors Act 1974, section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985, and paragraph 19 of Schedule 11 to the Legal Services Act 2007, with the approval of the Legal Services Board under paragraph 19 of Schedule 4 to the Legal Services Act 2007. These Rules regulate...
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations
The roll and registers
The SRA shall keep in electronic form: the roll; a register of all solicitors who hold practising certificates; the register of European lawyers; the register of foreign lawyers; and a register of authorised bodies.
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations
Information in respect of individuals
The roll, and the registers in regulation 1.1(b) to (d) shall contain the following information in respect of each individual included in the same: their full name; their authorisation number; the date of their admission as a solicitor or commencement of their registration, as appropriate; in respect of solicitors that hold a current practising certificate, the fact that they do so and the...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules (Archived)
Notice to defaulting practitioner
The SRA may not make a grant unless it has given not less than 8 days' notice to the defaulting practitioner informing them of the nature and value of the application, unless it appears to the SRA that it would not be reasonably practicable to give such notice, or the grant should be made urgently. Where the SRA has made a grant urgently in accordance with rule 17.1, the SRA shall as soon as,...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules (Archived)
Grants which may be made from the Fund
For any grant to be made out of the Fund, an applicant must satisfy the SRA that the applicant is eligible in accordance with rule 4 and (save in respect of a grant made under rule 3.4) has suffered or is likely to suffer: loss in consequence of the dishonesty of a defaulting practitioner or the employee or manager or owner of a defaulting practitioner; or loss and hardship in consequence of a...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules (Archived)
Losses outside the remit of the Fund
For the avoidance of doubt, the SRA shall not make a grant in respect of losses that: arise solely by reason of professional negligence by a defaulting practitioner, or the employee or manager of a defaulting practitioner, save as provided for in rule 3.4; are indirect or consequential, save where a claim is made for costs of completing or remedying work for which the defaulting practitioner...
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SRA Compensation Fund Rules (Archived)
Apportionment and multi-party issues
Where the loss has been sustained as a result of the act or omission of more than one party, the SRA will consider the role of each party in contributing to the applicant's loss in deciding whether to make a grant and, if so, the amount of any grant. In the case of a defaulting licensed body, the SRA will consider the extent to which the loss is attributable to an act or omission which falls...
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