SRA Standards and Regulations

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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 21

Maintenance and termination of the fund

The Indemnity Fund shall continue to be held, managed and administered by the SRA for so long as and to the extent that the SRA may consider necessary or appropriate for the purpose of providing indemnity in respect of any claim(s) made or intimated during any indemnity period and/or during or subsequent to any indemnity period arising out of circumstances notified during any indemnity period...
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 5

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

Rule 1

Authority

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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules

Rule 19

Waivers

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SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations

Regulation 8

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 Statutory Trust Rules

Rule 2

Identifying beneficial entitlements

The SRA will create a reconciled list or a best list in respect of statutory trust monies held, using the information which it has available. In creating a reconciled list or a best list, any sums of money which are identified within a statutory trust account as being payments on account of fees or unpaid disbursements, or which are equivalent to the costs incurred in a matter to which the...
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SRA Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules

Rule 2

Assessment

When considering your character and suitability, the SRA will take into account the overriding need to: protect the public and the public interest; and maintain public trust and confidence in the solicitors' profession and in legal services provided by authorised persons. In doing so, the SRA will take into account the nature of your role, and your individual circumstances, on a case by case...
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SRA Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules

Rule 5

Aggravating and mitigating factors

Table 3 sets out a non-exhaustive list of the types of aggravating and mitigating factors the SRA will take into account where you have disclosed, or it has received, information which raises a question as to your character and suitability. Table 3: Aggravating and mitigating factors Aggravating Factors Mitigating Factors No evidence of successful rehabilitation. No evidence of steps taken to...
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations

Regulation 2

Qualifying work experience

Qualifying work experience must: comprise experience of providing legal services which provides you the opportunity to develop the prescribed competences for solicitors; be of a duration of a total of at least two years' full time or equivalent; and be carried out under an arrangement or employment with no more than four separate firms, educational institutions or other organisations. In...
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SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations

Regulations 3.1 - 3.3

Eligibility for admission of qualified lawyers

You will be eligible for admission as a solicitor if the SRA is satisfied: you hold a legal professional qualification that is recognised by the SRA, which confers rights to practise in England and Wales or in an overseas jurisdiction; and subject to regulation 3.2, you meet the criteria in regulation 1.1(a), (b),(d) and (e). Subject to regulation 3.3, if you hold a qualification recognised...